The Washington herald., 1920-10-03
Uncle Wggib Looking for Piuate Secretary
To Help Him in Picking Out His Suits of Clothes
So Many Offered and All So
Good, He Can't Make Up
His Mind Besides He
e Hates to Hurt Anybody S
Feelings.

Unless Uncle wiggily gets a pri-
v-rs secretary or something, pretty
soon. ae's going to do one Of two
,afrE- He'll either go squashy
aat e-gke, or he'll 60 out and hide
in The gabbage patch, where nobody
eau md him-especially the post
InAI-
ogble is, Uncle wigsily Is too
kfnc b arted. Not only tnat
bud lrs mighty hard for him to
mai p his mind
f., week when the new cos
.-1lrn4- ,ome in through the malls
nd re are just oodles and oodles
'yr about seven or eight hun
d, guess-he looks EN- over
Id ides he'll pick this one. and
sr md then he looks again, and
a; his mind, just like a wom-
IA decides he'll take some
And n the end, Of course-again
ike a woman-he wants to take
ZEN al, so nObody's feelings will
be hUrt
Og .5urse that can't be done. And
there ou are.
want Christmas Money.
TheIs's another thing, too. There
ars loads and loads Of little friends
who write to Uncle wiggily every
week, hoping they'll get prize
and telling what they'll do with
the money II 1t comes. Last week.
for instance, about a dozen boys
and girls said they were going TO
save anything they might win for
Christmas.
Uncle wiggiIy is very strong for
that. .,
And there was one little girl
mustn't tell her name, because she
didn't win anything at all who
wrote that she Couldn't color the
picure very well because her right
arm was broken and she had TO
use her left hand, but that she
hoped she would get q prize so she
could buy her little brother a pair
of gloves for the winter"
Hurts 10 Refuse.
Uncle wiggily tried his best
70 figure out some way he could
give the little w-iter-she is only 8
years old-one of the prizes. But
then he remembered that it wouldn't
be fair to the others.
And being so hard hearted hurts
Know anybody who would like to
be Uncle wiggily's secretary? Write
TO him about it. in care OF the Wash
ington Herald.
About the best time Uncle Wig
xfly has Is reading the letters his
friends write him. Some of them
send Ia original drawings, too, par
-Nculariy a boy named Elwood Will
son, who has sent in several PEN
and-ink sketches. They show a heap
OF potential talent. When Elwood
.ets a little older, Christy and Glib
SON and those fellows had better
look out
Eleanor Boorman, who, inciden-
tally, won another prize this week,
sent Uncle wiggily some snapshots
Of herself taken by her mother. 1t
was very dear OF her to think of her
little old Uncle, and the pictures
SHOW Ner to be just as pretty and
-xecS as he thought she was from
fe- letters. But-horrors, the pic
lures showed her hugging great
z fsrocs51s poodle dog! 1 hope, IL they
H.ver meet, that Trixie-for that's
thc logs name, Eleanor says
won't try to get any Of Uncle Wig
Eii5's ,ouss.
Don't Try to Cheat.
There's one other thing that Uncle
Wiggily has to write about this
week. He doesn't want TO, one bit,
because it's unpleasant. But he feels
be cught to.
sou-e of the pictures sent in are
.ust y wee bit too good for the ages
OF the children supposed to be color
nE them. Either that or there are
some remarkable undiscovered child
prod giles about.
uncle Wiggily is mighty kind
hearted aud trusting, and he hates
TO think that any of his little friends
would try to fool him. But at the
same time, Re has to use "A little
common se=Se.
And so, when ne gets a picture