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Pettipoint

by Latent

Have You tried holding one of those Sharpeville Day posters to the light? No? I thought not—so few do these days. If you do you will notice words to the effect that the poster was published by the IUS.

Look! There goes the first qualm of the spring. Chase, chase. Indeed, 'tis a Lesser Spotted Qualm—a very rare variety in these days of quarmlessness. Careful! It may get away—curses, it's ducked behind this potted qualm. I'll soon have you out of there, oit. oit, you evil qualm, you! Dammit—I'll come to no qualm, let him come to me. Thinks . . . I'll just waft these qualmy knees . . . so . . . and lo! "Tis out, and making for the nearest quarmhouse at a fast trot. But no! even this is not enough—I am hot on the trail,—and he breaks into a rapid gallop. "Calling all cars, beware of a riderless trot heading east, and an illegally entered gallop heading North by South." Ha! I have the fiend. You fool— that's a quarma. Thou art strangely yclept. That's a crewcut. And so ends another eventful day in the busy life of the gentleman quarmer. You don't see the point—nor do I, but my typewriter does this sort of thing occassion ally. It warrants looking intwo.

Judith Ann Phillips, 25-year-old daughter of the Bishop of Portsmouth, England, is to have a wedding service in the city's cathedral.

"Her fiance, Timothy Melbuish, a 28-year-old trainee business executive, is a Roman Catholic.

"The engagement has been the subject of toplevel talks between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches.

"In fact, as Judith's mother explained, it has gone as high as such affairs can go." [Newspaper quote.]

I can't imagine that there will be any problem, then, in that case.

Has This Column been classified? Or is it now the rounding-off — the brandy after the hearty and satisfying meal of Salient? The editor preserves an aloof disdain. He denies the report that a survey carried out in the local flats showed that the outside pages tend to go first when the usual perforated roll runs out.

I Was Interested to read in the paper the comments on the demonstrators at the American warship. One gathered that they were young, and would not have known what they were doing. Conned into it by their elders, no doubt, by the pressures of their opinionated parents: their poor immature minds having not a chance to think for themselves, to consider the issues with the clear light of logic. I think it is shameful in the extreme that these young children (some of them were no more than 14 or 15) should have their impressionable minds warped in this way.

At what age does the Roman Catholic church confirm its adherents?