POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

The predicted storm that was to I complicate matters in the Test has not arrived. -Perhaps it is waiting until the A.8.0. and the M.C.C. (ana others) debate tho body-line theory. * # ■• "Unt-lo Angus" Lurries this along to say that he is mighty glad no- one gave him a cigarette lighter for Christmas, seeing that tho price of petrol, has jumped. More and more, as we listen to Mr. Roosevelt on the war debts, we feel that the silence he has stressed several times is destined to prove golden. Here's hoping. * • ♦ Heading in a contemporary— EATEPAYERS' QUEUES. And to-morrow, for those hard 09b please ex-queues? • » * BULL-AT-GATE STYLE. Regretfully we are impelled to dis« agree with certain Lower Hutt eoun* eillora. This country is not over-govi erned or mis-governed: it is hit-or-miss-governed. • • ■» * INFERENCE. If, as Sir Francis Bell insists, common sense is tho one safe "guide for, Governments, that proposition sufficiently explains why our Coaiitiba has so regularly to go outside Parliament for light and leading when new problems crop up. •■• , • TALKING OF RISKS. Discussing Saturday's Test matcl play the cablegrammer, praising Jardine 's captaincy, says that he "took 4 sporting risk, banking on Larwood's opening session. . . "It would have been a more obvious gamble if Jardme had opened the attact with Sutcliffe at one end and Jardine himself at the other. ■' ■ .FLOATING OR ANCHOREDf Vide interview with Sir James Mur« doch in "The Post":— ■ Wherever you go within a hundred miles of Sydney, north, south, east, or west, said Sir James, you will find the rapid development of the small farm, perhaps not always aa unmixed blessing. For East is East and West is West, and East is the Tasman Sea. P.H.P. • « • AN ESSENTIAL CONDITION. A recent article in "The Post" oa the composition of matter, contained this paragraph:— , Rutherford suggested the possibility of a ; proton or hydrogen nucleus having intimately associated with it, in the faahion of the electrons of other nuclei, a single electron. Such, a combination would form a new kind of body having mass 1 and no charge. Personally, we are in favour of any; combination, forming any kind of body, new or old, provided there is-no charge* R.J.P. * • ♦ POSTED . . . MISSING. "Disguisted."—lt is possible, of course, that there is something amiss with your perspective. "Elementary."—Not so elementary; as you imagine, my dear Watson. "Jennie."—What a precocious youngster he must be! " Crosby. >i — Thank you, but that young man worked off an old one in that. "Olio." —Not quite what this fea« ture is looking for. , ■ "B.T.P.C."— Quite good, but publication might involve somebody in trouble. Thanks all the same. "Miss P."—Falls below your usual standard. '' Pour 2 Pour.''—Not up. Try again. Your reference to the column is appreciated. " / "Ginger" (Nelson). —It looks interesting, but your point eludes us. "H.M.M."—Still considering it. Prefer copy written on one side ot paper. * .*- .*. HUMOUR. . Now what is humour—what its pel* manent place? Will it survive our human destinyt So often, in analysis, we trace Its origin in frank vulgarity. Yet 'tis of life a sheer necessity: Can it be sublimated into grace, Till it become part of eternity, An 4 with the high-aspiring soul keen pace? . The old gods rocked with laughter, but alas, Those Homeric gods! their wit was rather weird— They were akin to Lucifer, I fear. But, through the immortal gates, may, Humour pass, ■While- old.St. Peter chuckles in his beard— A.nd joyous laughter shakes from sphere to sphere. PEARLEEN. ■ • ♦ • EQUALOGICIANS. It's not half bad fun guessing thesa equalogucs, so in response to "Carmen's" • request here are the solutions, every one: (1) Greymouth, (2) Longburn, (3) Petone, (4) Eastbourne, (5)" Wellington, (G) Papamoa, (7) Outram, (8) Waimate, (9) Masterton. - I'm afraid my brain won't run to putting them into verse as- was S3 cleverly done by one of your postscript ters. Those consonants, and vowels are harder, but so far I have solved (IV V.X.'s, (2> 0.D.C., (3) D.C.'s, (4) LXf., (5) D.K., (G) , (7) L.E.G.,- (S) S.N.s, (9) . ' *■ '■ Those sent in by "Yours, • etc."—(lV Cowslip, (2) Cows-lip, (3) , (4) chairman, (5) tarpaulin, (6) . If I wait till I have discovered all these I'm afraid I might find you had closed down on this particular brand of Postscript! (Tho missing ones in order are emanate, tayenne, effigy, vaseline, and theatre. Would you like another game to take our minds off the Great Depression? Dfd you ever try to prove one thing to be something totally different from what it appears? Thus, prov.e that a cricket bat is a cow. (I expect it is called so sometimes, but there is a way to prove it.) A cricket bat is willow, If you will owe, it is to pay not, • Pain 'ot is a warm ache, War make is peace end, v A pea sent is a missile, A miss islo is a shore torn; and Of course a Shorthorn is a COW, and there you are. By the same token a sheet of foolscap can be proved to be a lazy dog: A sheet of foolscap is an ink lined plane, An inclined plane is a slope up, A slow pup is a lazy dog. Any moro at home like that? D.B. "Carmen" obtains full marks for &»• swers to our own Equalogues, and Mary; G. passes with credit,