POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 1

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Finns' are out to make Mr. Hitler very fishy.

"Dr. Goebbels and the Wehrmacht?: • Mrs. Mumm calls it "Dr. Gobbles and the Worm. Act," which seems to fit the case, what? * * * Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close td the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.—Samuel Taylor Coleridge * * * CASH AND CARRY. A bewildered guest of the Summer Hotel, near Livingston Manor, New York State, carried- his own suitcase to his room, sat down on the bed, and stared at the two 25-cent coins in "his palm. On arrival he had given his suitcase to.the bell-hop, and offered a' 25-cent. tip. The bell-hop, in tones of regret, said: "If you'll carry up the bag yourself, sir, I'll give you 25 cents. That gentleman who has just arrived always tips me a dollar for carrying his bag, and I'd hate to lose it." Two coins clinked in the guest's hand, and the bell-hop walked away. - . «■ "■■■*■■'.■".■.'■'■♦• INFORMATION. , In reply to C.G.G., who wanted to know whether or not there were' versei on the Statue of Liberty: ; i There are five lines of verse on tho | pedestal—here they, are: Give me your tired, your poor,: , ; Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. * * # READ THIS. Says Dr. Inge: "The episode of our history when we were a great and wealthy industrial nation has come to an end, and we shall gradually slide back into the pre-industrial England, with a population of 20,000,000 consisting mainly of agriculturists working healthily in the open air, and a number of small tradesmen in the towns. Whether we like that or not, we are coming to it." Dr. Inge is as glooming as ever, v * * #'•'■> GENS DE GUERRE. O they that fall on many fronts, I hear them thundering in the van Of every new advance today; *■ You cannot beat to earth the man Who knows the justice of his pledge; You cannot split apart the sword Of these that rise from death beside The stark young armies of the Lord. —Paula Hanger. * ■ * .".■»■.■ 300 WORDS A MINUTE. • Three stories were told in divorce courts about husbands who tried to stop "careless talk." Chelsea wife: Said her husband frequently woke her at night and asked her what she had been dreaming about, particularly if she had been talking in her sleep. Enfield husband: Checked his wife on a stop-watch and found she talked at 300 words a minute when nagging him. North London husband: Always checked what he told his wife, because his mpther-in-law warned him not to tell his wife anything he didn't want the world to know.