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Show In The Mail To The Pyramid Berkeley, July 25,. 1948 Dear Tom and Virginia, Ours has been a most unusual vacation but then the unusual is not uncommon in California. Janet has been working as a nurse at the St. Francis Hospital Hospi-tal in San Francisco, thus alleviating alle-viating somewhat the nursing shortage there, and incidentally brushing up on latest techniques: tech-niques: My own graduate studies here in Berkeley have kept me close to my books. My courses in English Literature have been interesting and helpful opening open-ing up many new avenues of research should I ever chose to pursue them further. The average av-erage college students age seems to be about 35 as I have observed some of the 10,000 here on the U. C. campus. Studies Stu-dies are taken seriously and consequently one must "burn the midnight oil" to keep up. We've enjoyed receiving the Pyramid and have in this way kept up with the news at home. I wish we could have been j there at the celebration last weekend. For details we'll just have to refer to your paper. We're planning to leave this Friday, July 30 to return to Mt. Pleasant (the same day I'll have completed two final exam- I inations) and I'll be back in the j pulpit Sunday, August 1. See you soon. I Erwin E. Bollinger. His Heritage One rainy afternoon Aunt Sue was explaining the meaning of various wo Ms to her young nephew. "Now, an heirloom, my dear, means something that has been handed down from father to son," she said. "Well," replied the boy,1 thoughtfully, that's a queer, name for my pants." I Snooty Talk A woman returned a smart pair of shoes to the exclusive shop where she had purchased them. "They won't do," she announced. an-nounced. "I simply can't walk in them." "Madam," the clerk replied, looking down his nose, "people who have to walk don't shop here." He Was Wise "I don't believe you know the meaning of the word 'courtship'," 'court-ship'," said the designing young woman. "Don't I?" replied the wary young man. "Courtship means running after a woman till she I catches vou !" Meow I Just as a small-town butcher was explaining the merits of a roast to a customer, a woman rushed in and interruted him. "Give me a half pound of cat-! cat-! meat quick!" she ordered. Then she turned to the first customer and said: "I hope you won't mind my being served aluad of you." "Oh, no," shrugged the first woman, "not if you're as hungry hun-gry as all that." A Matter of Pride One night Joe came home with lipstick on his collar. "Where did you get that?" demanded de-manded the little woman: "from rr.v maid ," j "No." Joe replied. "From my governess?" s !-. sr. an pod. "No." repeated Joe. adding iudignant'y: "Don't you think I have. my own friends?" ' I Too Much in Common Among tho visitors at the city zoo were a gentleman and his cousin from the mountain country. The gri.-v.led mountaineer moun-taineer sUxhI spellbound, as he viewed the eh phants. giraffes j land various other animals and birds. It w as w iih reluctance thai he loft one cape to go ;o another. As they came to the rr.or-k.-y ..' cage, however. our friends " paused for only a moment, then '" hastened away. "What's the hurry?" asked his corr.pan:on. who" loved to ' watch tho monkeys. "I didn't mind' a-lookin' at ;- the eifants and sech." he s-aid. -a : "but theso wal. they were a- lookin' at me!" |