April, which is National Humor Month, is just around the corner. It has been said that a laugh a day keeps the doctor away. Your Roswell Public Library has materials that stress the importance of humor, as well as tickle your funny bone. In both of these, Loretta LaRoche uses humor to help people get a handle on stress by putting their lives back into perspective. 366 Days of Story and Rhyme.
Libraries are books and more than books.
Libraries offer not only materials for knowledge and information, but also for fun. If you like to know how popular phrases came into use, you'll be interested in the origin of these phrases. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. In old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. Also in England many years ago, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups.