Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-03
AT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
How Three Little Children Were Put
In a Bottle.

In a Bottle.
IN the afternoon the nurse brushed
up little Teds hair and curled it over
her finger for the whole length OF his
head, and as he was a nice chubby
baby he looked his very prettiest
His two sisters were all ready to put
on their hats and coats for a walk
and they, too, looked as clean, and
rosy, and bright as any children you
ever saw-and that's saying a grea:
deal.
Just then their aunt came in, and
when she saw them, she said to
their mother: "Oh, dear! IL We could
only keep them just So"
The truth was, the aunty was think
ing of the time when Ted would grow
IN and be wearing a high hat and
trousers; and when Lulu would have
her golden locks twisted up in back
comb and Annie would wear a Queen
Elizabeth ruff perhaps; and no won
der she wanted to keep them looking
like little children!
Just then she remembered that she
had seen in a newspaper. IF you
want to keep your children just as
they are go to the Wise Man in the
Pavilion" So she went to the Wise
Man, and said: I've got two cum
ming little nieces and splendid neph-
ew and I want to keep them just as
they are. Can you really do it,"
Yes, ma'am, so that they'll look
Just the same thousand years from
now"
How can you do it?"
Bottle them up" said the Wise
Man. Just bring them here at 10
O'Clock some bright morning and I'll
show you"
At 10 o'clock the next morning they
all went to the Pavilion. They took
Rover. their big Newfoundland dog
with them. Lulu and Annie wond-
cred great deal what sore of a
place pavilion might be. This one
turned out to be room, at the top
OF high building, with the roof all
made Of glass. The hall leading to
1t was full of queer chairs, and tables
and cushions-and large screens COW
cred with gray pictures. There was
sled, and a stuffed parrot, and
dolls carriage, all tossed about as
they often are in the children's nurs.
cry, but the Wise Man knew how to
use every one of them. The children
felt a little frightened at first-for
Pavilion" Is a very big word, but
the aunt and the nurse kept very
close to them, so that they soon tor
said to Lulu-the Oldest: did you
ever hear of a person going into
bottle and coming ont again and
never knowing it?"
81 should think a person would be
too big"
"Oh! he gets very small when he
goes in" said the Wise Man. Now,
here is my bottle, turn it down on
its side, and put it on this stand and
turn It's mouth toward a person, and
before he knows 1t he's In, and pre-
served forever'-if he only sits very
still. Now, in few minutes you
are going in the bottle"
So boy brought three chairs, and
the Wise Man placed Lulu and Annie
Just as their aunt thought she should
like to see them when preserved
forever" and then he nodded to the
nurse to bring Ted, for, as he was
only a year old, he couldn't under
stand about keeping still. So they
put him in his high chair at the last
minute.
Fidele. the nurse, ran so fast that
the shook her cap of on the floor.
Lulu had doll and Annie a woolly
log In her hands. Then the Wise
Nan gave a queer little whistle and
pulled a cord that lifted the lid of the
,ottle, and the Wise Man said, "Pll
tep around and see II they're in"
lie went around and looked at the
ottom of the bottle and this is what !
e saw, Capital" "All Right" Then
n minute he pulled another cord |
nd the Wise Man said, Done" Then |
lie took the bottle away into little |
ark room, and in few minutes he |
rought picture to the aunty and |
he said, Capital"
All this time Rover had been so
God, and quiet that the Wise Man
ot-out his bottle again and put Rover
a 1t, TOOL. M. Plunkett In st.
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