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Pete is a 14-month-old squirrel monkey
....ho lives in Glendale, Wisconsin, with his
owners, Billy and Johnny Reicherts. Recently
we heard about the boys being given a dice
and checkers game which they love to play
whenever they have a chance .•Pete-who is
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out of his cage much of the time-always
watched. Then one evening he disappeared and
so did the game. They finally found him under
the couch with the checkerboard in front of
him. madly rolling the dice towaro six checkers
neatly arranged in a row. And so it went
for 45 minutes-monkey see, monkey do. Pete
knows how to turn the lights on, too.
You may have heard of the cure for insomnia
in which you have some fresh lettuce
or parsley and a cup of warm milk befor~ you
go to bed, anu then you settle down to concentrate
on the sounds of your own breathing.
Presto-dreamland! But Mrs. P. B. Van Dyke
of North Merrick, New York, uses more drar.-;atic
means. Putting her he:id calmly on the
pillows, she closes her eyes and imagines a
huge black wall. Then starting way up at the
top (that's right. stretch), she pretends to paint
on it very, very slowly a huge white "3."
Thankfully, she admits, she never has to finish
it because she's fast asleep before she gets to
the bottom,
Sally Ruhf of Birmiilg/wm, Michigan, writes
about a friend whose son appeared at the
bre:;kfast table one morning in a white shirt,
tie. and his best sports jacket. "What on earth
is going on at school today?" asked his startled
mother. "Well, :Jee, there's this girl-she's a
cheerleader for the team we:,-,eplaying today,"
he mumbled, then dashed off. When he returned
that night his mother asked, "Did you
have a good time-at the dance after the
game, I !Il~an-with, er, the little cheer.
leader?" "Wel.J, sort of," he replied." "I saw
her and she said 'Hi.' So thee I said 'Hi,' too."
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A Marietta, Georgia, minister was telling
his congregation where he got the material
for his sermons and how "outside int.erest"
groups deluge clergymen with topics to ex-
pound from the pulpit. "For example," he said,
"the fire chief regularly urges me to emphasize
fire prevention-what else does he think I've
been doing all these years?"
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Back from the days of Tin Lizzies. white
flannels, and handsome moustaches come the
band concerts in the park, which are going
to be held this summer in Ladlle. Des Peres,
Lemay, and other suburbs of St. LOllis, Missouri.
Gus Ponstingl and his Viennese Serenaders
will open in Lemay, June 16th, and
there will be 12 other bands giving concerts
'in other parks all through the summer. Admission
will be free, just as it was in the
good old days, part of a public service presented
by a civic-minded brewing corpora.
tion in cooperation with the American Federation
of Musicians alid the St. Louis Department
of Parks and Recreation.
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