Welcome to National Dog Week, National Singles Week, and National Imperfection Week. Today is American Business Women's Day, which recognizes the important contributions more than 55 million American working women are making. Today is also Elephant Appreciation Day, National Centenarians Day, and Dear Diary Day, of which sponsors say: "Put it on paper. You'll feel better."
    If you really want a treat today, you might enjoy celebrating the 95th birthday of the ice cream cone. Italo Marchiony emigrated from Italy in the late 1800s and soon went into the portable restaurant business in New York with a pushcart dispensing lemon ice. Success led to a small fleet of pushcarts, and the inventive Marchiony was inspired to develop a cone, first made of paper, later of pastry, to hold the tasty delicacy!
    Friday is the anniversary of the date in 1690 when the first (and only) edition of "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick" was printed in Boston. Authorities considered this first newspaper published in the United States offensive and ordered immediate suppression.
    Saturday is the anniversary of the 1774 birth of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Sunday is Ancestor Appreciation Day and National Good Neighbor Day.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?
    Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. observes the first day of autumn with felt boards, stories, and make a crown of leaves and a leaf mobile crafts. At Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime, participants can celebrate specialties of Roswell - Chili and Cheese -- with stories and make a chili necklace and chili hat crafts!

BOOK TALK
    Librarian Larry Holm provides this week's information on the library's growing collection of talking books, CD ROM books, and software. For instance, you might try "You Belong to Me" by Mary Higgins Clark, "Electricity and Magnetism" by World Book, "Jumping Frogs to Cannibalism" by Mark Twain, and "Ask Your Angels" by Alma Daniels.
    Other titles include "Random Acts of Kindness"; "Nothing In This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are"; "The Best of Playboy Fiction"; "Lives of the Monster Dogs"; "Route 66: The Mother Road"; "More Random Acts of Kindness"; and "The Dork of Cork."
    Kids can check out fantastic worlds and brave heroes and heroines in "A Dragon Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic"; "Elidor"; "The Doom Brigade"; and Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time"; "A Swiftly Tilting Planet"; and "A Wind in the Door." If they prefer something a little scarier, they can try "There's No Such Thing as Ghosts," "Graveyard Tales," "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," or Bruce Coville's "Book of Monsters."

DID YOU KNOW?
    Here are some "totally useless facts" found on the Internet. For instance, did you know that the US Interstate Highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight? These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies. Another interesting piece of travel trivia is that the Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane!
    Speaking of boats, the cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for every gallon of diesel fuel that it burns! While we're talking of fuel, you may be interested to know that Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous two-day transatlantic flight!

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." (unknown)

JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276

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