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Show . . 1 Ruminatin' Roundabout j i In which R'tminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are st'll above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hcTt-shot now and then while said Ruininat-or Ruininat-or can enjoy seeing the sparks fly. Eat it up wear it out; Make it do, or do without! "What's the matter, Nick?" "Nothin'. Jus' a bit dizzy from reading a circular letter, that's all." The Reader's Digest tells about a Minneapolis columnist who ran a 240-line want ad for a maid in a local Sunday newspaper. He got quite a response 643 telephone tele-phone calls, 26 of them from applicants ap-plicants and 617 from people who wanted to hire any applicant he might turn down. "Dad. what is a diplomat?" ; "A diplomat, my boy, is a person per-son who is appointed to avert situations that would never occur if there were no diplomats." ! V- I |