El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-25
Bedtime Story for the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE FACE POWDER.

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, per. JAMIE, and wen have a good
time"
'Oh. joyl" said the muskrat lady.
/ What sort OF a moving picture show
is il, Wig2" Sometimes she called
him Wig for very short.
ITS called Boys and Girls in Cir
Gus Land" said Mr.. Longears. The
picture is all about how boys and
girls live and have fun just as we
animals DO. I wouldn't miss It for
two lollypops and part Of another Ice
cream cone on a hot day at Asbury
Beach Come along."
So the bunny rabbit gentleman and
then they got ready to go to the NOV
ing pictures At the last minute
Nurse Jane stood in front Of the glass
and rubbed something white on her
nose with little puffy rag.
What's the matter?" asked Uncle
Wiggily. Did you bump your nose,
Janie?"
mo. I'm. just putting a bit Of pow
der on it."
Powder cried Uncle Wiggily. "Do
you mean shooting powder? Are you
like a gun, Nurse Jane, are you go
ing to bang"
This is only face powder. It Is like
talcum powder. I put it on my nose
so it viii not be shiny"
What shiny2'' Uncle Wiggily
asked Your nose or the powders"
MY nose you teasing bunny rab-
Bit said Nurse Jane. I don't want
it to be shiny when I go to the pic
lures, so 1 dust a little powder on. All
the ladies do that"
"Well,' said Uncle Wiggily. Maybe
it's all right, for, of course, I don't
know much about ladies' noses But
it does seem to me that in dark
moving picture a little shine would
do no harm However, far be 1t from
me, Nurse Jane, TO stand in the way
Of your poWdering your nose
So the muskrat lady put face pow
der on her nose with the puff rag, and
she and Uncle Wiggily went to the
movies. There they saw nice play,
all about a lot of boys and girls who
had a make believe play circus in
tent in the back yard.
-Oh, this is real jolly" said Nurse
Jane, clapping her paws.
Then you like ia" asked Uncle
Wiggily.
VERY much" answered the musk
rat lady. For you know that while
you boys and girls like 10 look 1t
moving pictures Of animals Of course,
animals like 10 look at moving pic
lures of YOU children
There came one scene where lot
of boys stood on their heads and /
turned somersaults and Nurse Jane
laughed at this, and so did Uncle Wig I
gily and all the other animal folk !
And all at once Nurse Jane said:
"Oh dear, I dropped IT."
Dropped what?" asked Uncle Wig !
gily.
MY powder puff rag" said Miss
Fuzzy WuzZy.
''Tn get it for you" said the bunny.
and he did, feeling around on the I
dark floor with his paws. And then (
the moving pictures was over. and (
Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane started
home through the woods in the dark
Of the night But they were not
afraid.
stump bungalow and Uncle Wiggily
was wondering il there was anything
to eat before going to bed when all
Of a sudden, out from behind a stump
jumped a bad old fox
"Ah, ah.' cried the fox Il am in
luck. A bunny and a muskrat shall
not 90 hungry this night!
He threw a SNOWFALL at Uncle
and the bunny put up his
paws in front of his face to stop the
inowbalI from hitting him. To his
surprise Uncle Wiggily found that
ie still had Nurse James powder puff
n his paw. And then the SNOWFALL
lit it and the powder went all over
Jncle Wiggily's pink, twinkling nose
nd IN his whiskers and
All OF a SuQuG4 lllE lux G leu
"Oh, I guess I made a mistakei
You're not Uncle Wiggily at all
-ou're Mr.. Whitewash. the polar
year, and I'd never dare take even a
little bite out of him Pray excuse
me-" and away ran the fox as fast
IS he could go. b
what made him run away2" asked
Nurse Jane
well. I guess it was your face
powder" said Uncle Wiggily- 1t
catered all over on me from your
,uff and made me look white like a
,olar bear. guess. Then the fox
bought I was Nj. Whitewash and he
vas afraid and away he ran, and I'm
,lad."
$50 am 7" said Nurse Jane, and
hen she and Uncle Wiggily went on
afely home TO the bungalow And
Nurse James nose wasn't shiny bit.
So this teaches US that face powder
S all right in its place, and II the
Gal man doesn't forget 10 come to
,reakfast so he can help feed the gas
tove its dinner for supper, I'll tell
-ou next about Uncle Wiggily and the
Two Times.-(Copyright, 1918, by Nc
lure Newspaper Syndicate).