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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-19
Bedtime Stories
For Little Ones
(By Howard r, Garisl
Copyright, 1920, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
UNCLE WIGGLY'S SEWING
LESSON
(By Howard r. Garis,)

Uncle Wiggily Longcars, the
bunny rabbit gentleman, was one
day hopping past the hollow stump
school where the lady mouse
teacher taught the animal chill
dren, when he heard Miss Mouse
saying:
"Attention, children! Hold your
needles! Thread your needles!
Aim your needles! Sew"
well! Well! That sounds lust
like when soldiers are practicing
their drill lessons" said Uncle
Wiggily to himself. Il wonder if
the lady mouse teacher is going
to have the children shoot :?
Though she spoke of needles!
Maybe she is going to stick the
Fuzzy Fox or the Woozie Wolf. |
had better so in and see if | can
help"
Twinkling his pink nose, to
make himself as brave as pos
sible, Uncle Wiggily went in the
hollow stump school, and he was
delighted to see there no Woozie
Wolf nor Fuzzie Fox. Instead he
saw the lady mouse teacher
perched on her little platform,
with a needle and thread in her
nav, and in the paws or claws or
wings of the animal girls and boys
were also needles with long trains
of thread.
"Oh. good morning. Uncle Wig
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Upton TIPS

Champ Clark will now be known, of
course as Ex-Champ Clark.
0 o o
And it was Johnson, too, that played a
good deal of havoc with the tite-holders.
Q Q Q
Georges Speaks Highly of jack
Headline. SO do we; all we can get our
hands on.
And, frankly speaking, you will remem-
Der that Georges took about a million francs
in American coin back to France with him.
o o Q o
Texas newspaper woman wrote up her
own wedding. And, of course you have the
usual guess as to whom she described as
being the most handsome man present
o o .
news story gives the account of a man
. who went from the bench to the bar. In
the old days they used to go from the bar
to the bench.
Something happened up in Paw Paw,
Michigan, the other day that let the world
know it was on the map and we anticipate
a popular song entitled, I'm Going Back to
Paw Paw Way Back in Michigan
o . o .
Thugs seem to have a canny way of
picking out the men with money Like an
old maid, we never have any exciting adven-
lures.
o o o o
Now that those Al nations are in session
at Geneva, the time looks rips for the United
States to tell 'em what kind of a league
they ought to have,
a
We've adopted this rule for women
meet on the street and are in doubt about
knowing Move the hand cautiously to the
head If she smiles, tip the hat. If she
frowns scratch the head as IL in deep
thought.
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have said his tall silk hat and his
red, white and blue striped rhcu-
matiSm crutch.
Just a moment" laughed Nurse
Jane. you can't go off looking
for an adventure today"
"Why not?" asked Mr.. Long
ears.
Because you promised to come
to a five o'clock tea with me, at
the home of Mrs. Wibblewobble,
the duck LADY,"
ooh, l had forgotten all about
it," said Uncle Wiggily. you're
all dressed up to go, L see, Nurse
Jane"
Indeed I ami" cried the musk
rat lady housekeeper, as she
Waited around again, and Uncle
Wiggily noticed that she had on
her very newest silk dress with
accordion gored plating down the
sides and appliqued insertions
gathered around the middle edges.
My! You look very nice!" said
Uncle Wiggily, flattering like and
sincere. Il do remember, now,
that | had promised to go s
O'Clock teaing with you. If you'll
wait just a moment I'll get my
best tall silk hat and go with you"
Uncle Wiggily did not have to
stop to put any powder on his
pink, twinkling nose, so he was
soon ready to go with the musk
rat lady to the home of Mrs.
WibblewObble, the duck lady.
Off they started over the fields
and through the woods, Nurse
Jane in her very newest dress,
and Uncle Wiggily with a blue
flower in his buttonhole, just as
you have leen him in his latest
pictures.
OF course Uncle Wiggily did not
care much about going to a 5
o'clock tea, where he would have
to nibble honey cakes and talk
to lot of ladies, But it could
not be helped.
81 would much rather have a
good, rousing adventure with the
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OUR PLATFORM.

1. primary election law which will re-
store the power 10 the hands of the people,
where It belongs.
2. A nom partisan commission Of three or
Ave TO have charge OF our school and institu-
tonal lands, and the permanent trust funds
derived therefrom.
8. A fair, adequate and just tax law which
viii eQuitably distribute the burden of gov
eminent We have especial reference to the
mining tax laws, although we will seek to
reach any other evaders, big or little, whom
we find. We favor q mine tax law based
upon an I'D valorcm property basis, as other
property Is taxed.
4. A fuller budget system for the state in
an effort to put state expenditures on an eff
Client, economical and progressive basis.
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THE RED STRANGERS.

Three significant dispatches came over the
wires of The Associated Press recently. One was
the announcement that the American Federation
of Labor is taking steps to eliminate radcalism
from any control in organized labor Another was
that Canada exercising strict vigilance in keep
ing out bolshevik agitators. The third was that
Anthony Caminetti, United States commissioner of
immigration, has left for southern Europe, whore
he is to study the immigration question,
These dispatches indicate that the western
hemisphere is beginning to realize that the red
peril is not a bugaboo created by what the radicals
like to call "the capitalist press"
In the past the United States has been too lax
in admitting the strangers at our gates" If an
immigrant flashed a sufficiently big wad of bills
so as to be in danger of becoming a public
charge" and was able to get some relative to meet
him at the docks, very few questions were asked
unless the immigration inspectors happened to
know that the man had prison record in the old
country. No effort made to get at his reasons
for coming to the New World. No questions were
asked him as to what he expected to find here
when he arrived.
In many cases agitators made by ignorance
and the perncious propaganda of other agitators
who have been in the United States for longer
time
1t may be objected that it would take too much
time to subject every prospective immigrant to such
well spent if in this way could keep out unde-
sirables. our immigration policy should be judged
by the quality of the strangers admitted not by
their quantity
Again, it may be urged that there are deporta-
ton laws under which immigrants who prove
themselves undesirable may be banished from our
shores. But there are two or three objections to
deportation. The first is, that by the time find
out that a is undesirable. he may have
done grevous damage. The time to handle a
ratesnake is before it gets into our paror Second
deportation in itself is confession of weakness
confession that were lax in admitting the
stranger in the first place in failing to make
him good citizen after he admitted Third,
deportation tends to make martyrs of the unde-
sirables Representatives, some of the crocodile
tears shed the Soviet ark"
In truth, ounce of exclusion is worth a pound
of deportation
On the other hand our 1atch-strng should con-
stantly be out for the bona fide immigrant who
comes to our shores protest against conditions
in Europe. Our very traditions built on the
tacit invitation to the politically or economically
oppressed classes of the Old World When we get
ell-meaning immigrant, let us see to it that he
is given chance to imbibe true Americanism. Let
at him, such as "dago," "bohunk," "wop," frog
eater" "greaser" "chili-eater" or similar delicate
euphemisms.
In word, let us be careful of whom we admit
Once we have let him in, let give him his chance
If he fails to meet standards let deport him
but only the last resort
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HUS 3! ID! AN D!.
E1R Pnalp

sorry I asked you to go into Mrs
Horizons this afternoon. You
would have been-happier l dare
say if you had not gone"
1T wasn't your fault | went. l
intended to all the time! that's
what ! asked you to so for so that
might have an excuse to go in
there.
"IOu mean-the picture ?"
"NU--but / am glad | saw that"
81 won't question you, Mildred,
but do wish there was some
thing | could do. You are sure
you can't stay with Clifford?"
I'm not sure of anything or
anybody" don't talk of it! re-
piled, just as we reached the
house, and saw Edith waving from
the window with Elsie's smiling
face behind her.
Shall She Tell Clifford She
Knows?
Muricl came in and remained
until nearly dinner time. She
rompcd and played with Edith;
talked to Elsie of her young days
after she became engaged, and
was so entertaining, so quaint in
her remarks, and "reminiscences
that the time passed so happily
and quickly that | had no time to
think of the happenings of the
afternoon. Well, l would wait
until after dinner l thought as
she passed Clifford coming in as
she went out I'll decide then
Rut after dinner Clifford went
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JUST FOLKS
Copyright, 1890. by Edgar A. Guest
HUMAN.


Just to be liked for the thing that am,
Not for the frill and the pomp and the sham;
Just to be liked for the thing that is me-
Not for the glory that some day may be;
Teach me to walk with my fellow men here,
Being myself every day of the year.
Never mind fortune and never mind SKILL
Though they should come l would be myself
still,
Though they should miss me l still want to so
Friend to the friendly, and just to the foe
Teach to live without pretense and sham,
Going through life just the man that l am.
Want to be human, reckon that's all.
Glad when the old friends shall drop in to call;
Nothing that's helpful too little to do,
Patient and kindly and generous, too;
Teach me to walk through this life to the end,
Free from all pose as a man and a friend.
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could even thread a needle be-
fore. But it isn't as hard as l
thought"
And it isn't hard to sew, once
you start to learn" said the lady
mouse. Now Wen try sewing
two pieces of cloth together, Uncle
Wiggily, You may tear your
handkerchief in two some day and
want to mend it."
Attention, children! Hold your
needles, thread your needles. Aim
your needles Sew"
And with that the animal boys
and girls began to sew together
two pieces of cloth. The bunny
rabbit gentleman did very well,
too. lie was just wondering what
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, his
muskrat lady housekeeper, would
say if he told her he could sew,
when, all of a sudden, the door
of the hollow stump school was
pushed open, and in bounced the
Fuzzy Fox.
ooh, ho!" growled the Fuzzy
Fox, with rumble deep down in
his throat. "Ah, ha! | thought
I'd find you here, Uncle Wiggily,
and | have! l saw your paw
marks in the snow and l followed
you right here to the hollow
stump SCHOOL,
"Oh, you did," asked Uncle
Wiggily in a sorrowful sort of
voice, as he held his sharp needle
in one paw. "And what do you
want of me?"
Il want you to come to my
den! There we shall have dinner
together" went on the fox, smack
ing his lips hungry like. ut is
almost dinner time" he went on,
looking at the clock. you may
go on with your lessons." he add
ed to the lady mouse teacher. 81
do not wish to bother you, or the
animal boys and girls. All ]
want is Uncle Wiggily!"
The lady mouse teacher looked
very sad at hearing this, for she
and the animal boys and girls
loved the bunny rabbit gentleman.
Come with me. Uncle Wiggily!"
ordered the Fuzzy Fox. Come
to my dem"
mo! Stay where you are!" sud
denly cried Sammie Littletail, the
boy rabbit, standing up at his
seat, with his needle and thread
in one paw.
who tells me to stop" sneered
the Fuzzy Fox.
Il dom cried Sammie. Come
on, fellows and girls" he shouted.
"We'll save Uncle Wiggily! Atten-
ton! Take the thread out of your
needles! Aim your needles! Stick
them at the fox"
Yes, stick them at the fox"
cried the other animal boys and
girls.
At the bad animal they rushed,
each one with a long, sharp, shin
ing needle. And the lady mouse
rushed with her needle, too. And
when the Fuzzy Fox saw all the
sharp. shiny points aimed at him
he just tucked his tail between
his legs and jumped out of the
window!
This is no place for me, when
Uncle Wiggily takes a sewing les
SON." howled the fox, as he ran
away. SO he didn't get the bunny
after all.
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Fuzzy Fox or Woozie Wolf, that
is, of course, if | got away from
Them" said Uncle Wiggily, and,
hardly knowing what he was do
ing, he spoke aloud.
whats that" cried Nurse
Jane, gathering up the skirt of
her new dress. do you see the
Fuzzy Fox and the Woozie Wolf?
oh. my goodness me sakes alive
and some apple pie crackers"
With that the muskrat lady
gave a jump to one side of the
path and started to run, but there
was ripping, tearing sound and
she stood still.
Don't be frightened. Nurse
jane" called Uncle Wiggily. at
was my fault. speaking my
thoughts out loud about the Fuzzy
Fox and the Woozie Wolf. Neither
of those bad creatures is here.
was just saying | might have an
adventure with them"
"Oh, please DON'T" begged the
muskrat lady. How you fright
ened me! l jumped when you said
wolf and fox"
II see you did, and l beg your
pardon" spoke Uncle Wiggily,
trying not to laugh. We'll. / be-
lieve you are just as glad as l
that there are no bad chaps near
us. Now Wen go along to Mrs.
Wibblewobble's house and have
some 5 O'Clock tea or even 6 or :
o'clock, it matters not to mel"
Nurse Jane was stepping back
into the path from which she had
jumped, but, as she looked down
at the skirt of her new dress, she
gave a sad cry.
whats the matter?" asked
Uncle Wiggily. After all is the
Fuzzy Fox or Woozie Wolf there,
Nurse Jane?"
"Oh, MOI" said Miss Fuzzy Wuz-
zy. But when l gave a jump !
caught my new dress on a thorn
bush and L. have torn a large hole
in it, 1 mean l have torn a hole
in my dress"
II see you have" sadly said
Uncle Wiggily. as he, too, looked
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gily!" squeaked the lady mouse
teacher. "You are just in time
to see us practice our sewing
drill, and perhaps you would like
to take a lesson yourself.
"Ahem" spoke Uncle Wiggily,
sort of solemn like. 81 didn't
know that animal men, or boys,
sewed."
"Well, I am teaching my pupils
to sew" said the lady mouse
teacher, and then Uncle Wiggily
noticed that Sammy Littletail, the
rabbit; Johnnie and Billie Bushy-
tail, the squirrels; Jackie and
Peetie Bow Wow. the dogs, and
even Jimmie Wibblewobble, the
duck boy, had needles and threads.
1T is just as needful for a boy
to know how to do little sewing
as it is girl" said the lady
mouse. 81 have an extra needle
and thread, Uncle Wiggily, and
perhaps you would like to take
sewing lesson" ....
81 should be delighted" spoke
the bunny rabbit gentleman. Then,
putting his tall silk hat on the tin
pan which was filled with dried
peas, being, in fact, the piano used
in the hollow stump school, Uncle
Wiggily took his needle and
thread.
"Attention, children" called the
lady mouse teacher. Hold your
needles! Thread your needles! Aim
your needless Sew" ....
And with that the animal boys
and girls began their sewing les
son, and so did Uncle Wiggily.
They had little pieces of cloth
each with a hole in, and this hole
they must mend, or darn, so it no
logger showed.
OF course, the girl rabbits, like
Susie Littletail, the rabbit; Lulu
and Alice Wibblewobble, the ducks
and Dottie Flufftail, the lamb, did
much better at sewing than the
boy chaps. Uncle Wiggily sort
of puckered the piece of cloth
when he darned the hole, and SO
did Billie Wagtail, the goat.
But of course we don't expect
the boys, or Uncle Wiggily, to do
as well as the girls" said the
lady mouse teacher with a smile.
"If they only learn how to sew on
a button, or fix a hole in their
stocking or sock, they'll be doing
very we'll"
That's what l say" laughed
Uncle Wiggiy. Il never thought
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Acknowledgements
<G@89I A~oIt hs = " AhSs

"He ought to do that after dark;
Il man should be ashamed, by
jing, to lead a bow-wow with a
string when there are chores that
should be done ere yet the night
obscures the SUM-" l cannot tell
the reason why and yet we all
detcst the guy, who travels para
sang and verst, and leads his liv-
ing wicnerWurst. The man who's
free with good advice may have
a nature sweet and nice; sincerity
may mark his rede when he
would counsel, guide and plead
but still he keeps us seeing red
we'd bounce a brick upon his
head. We are cranky bunch,
say l; we loathe and love and
don't know why.
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OTHER VISITS.

CHAPTER elk.
| made no reply to Muriels
remark ancnt my being jealous of
Mabel Horton, and she com
menced to talk of other things.
Then she proposed we call on
Lola Gardner, but ! objected to
going in with her, so she gave it
up.
We next called on Mrs. Nor
willie. She was delighted to see
us. She sympathetically asked
about mothers illness, and insist
ed that next time | came l should
bring Elsie. The NorVilles had
sent wonderful flowers when
mother died and l was glad to
express my appreciation.
Just as we were about to go,
something was said about Clifford,
! don't remember what
81 guess he was glad to get you
back. | used to see him strolling
down to Mabel Horizons almost
every night" she volunteered,
without a bit of malice; or any
idea that she was telling me any
thing unpleasant.
"Whcn a man reaches CliffOrd's
age he likes to sit around the
house and read or talk" l re-
piled.
The Ride Home.
"What in the world did you tel
Adelaide Norville that Clifford
liked to stay at home and read
for? ! never knew a man who
went out as much as he doss,'
Mwicl told me with all the free
dom of an intimate.
Didn't it sound well?" l
qucried.
Sound well of course it did,
but-wcll--I scarcely know what
to make of you any more. Tell
me Mildred. have you given Leon
ard Brooke up entirely?"
"Nu--Muriel. | am so unsettled.
Before mother was taken ill |
had made up my mind to so away
and get my divorce haven't de
cidcd NOT to, so don't look so
pleased, and
"Oh, | have so hoped that you
and Clifford would hit it off bet
ter when you came back MuriCl
interrupted. Leonard is a dear
boy; and I'd like to see you both
happy; but-would you be? Your
bringing up hasn't been just the
kind to make you ContCntcd as
divorced woman. I'm terribly
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READERS DISCOVERIES.

Mrs. r. v CIV Il am sure other
women will be glad to share my
little recent discovery with me.
This fall, in making fruit buffers
and apple sauce, | had the idea
of buying one of the heavy wire,
thrce-corncred sink straincrs and
pressing the fruit through this in
stead of through my ordinary
sieve, | found that this Strainer
was better than my old sieve for
two reasons: 1t was wider meshed
(and my sieve is the widest
mcshcd | can buy), thus making
the work easier; and | could press
as hard as | wanted on the wire
without fearing that the wire
would give away. as it so often
does on sieve"
A Bride Reader: my husband
and tried out your recipe hint
about painting an ugly Colored
rug with oil and paint and naph-
tina mixed to make it the color
we wished it, and found 1t most
successful. But this is what | am
writing to tell you: we also tried
painting some old buff color
shades in this way and found it
worked splendidly I thought your
readers might like to know that
oil paint and naptha would work
on shades as we'll as on rugs"
Old Timer: Il was much inter-
oSted in your recent article on
flowers in the home. For many
years | have had an indoor win
ter garden, using one of the old
fashioned wire plant stands to
hold the flower pots. This stand
is placed in a sunny dining room
window and contains only geran-
iums and begonias and it is a
gorgcously brilliant corner of my
home, Everybody asks the secret
of my success in making the
here it is: | keep small stick
lying in each flower pot at the
root of the plant and, with this
stick, stir up the dirt in each pot
frequently. | believe that loosen
ing the dirt in this way and per-
hitting the air to get to the roots
of the plants, does more good than
perfect watering. Here is how
water them: l keep the dirt
around the geranius quite wet. but
| water the begonias only when
the dirt begins to look rather
dry"
Bridesmaid: 81 want to tell
other women how we announced
the engagement of my dearest
friend recently: We had small
plaCc-cards made of crepe paper
which folded like a book, and in
side these cards were pasted a
snapshot of the happy couple
the girl on one cover of the book
and the man on the other cover
| had taken the snapshots with
my own camera and had simply
had six prints of each picture
struck off 1t made a tremendous
hubbub of surprise and excite
ment when the first guest opened
her place-card. The cards also
were appreciated as souvenirs to
keep" -ss- ,-ses- 20
+ Mrs. c. McF.; sit is getting near
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UNEXPLAINED

A man with sidcboards may be
wise shining light to other
guys, but ten men out of nine or
eight will view him with a death
less hate, and wonder why he'll
thus behave when twenty cents
will buy a shave. And where's
the man who can explain why
sideboards don't seem safe and
sane? Why do they make most
men see red, and yearn to punch
the wearer's head? The man
who leads a dog around may be
scholar most profound, may be
endowed with virtues fine, equip
ped in any crowd to shine. But
men who see him will remark,
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UNCLE WIGGILY AND NURSE
JAMES DRESS.

Come on, Uncle Wiggily.
Aren't you ready" asked Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy one afternoon,
as she waltzed down the stairs
in the hollow stump bungalow
whore the bunny rabbit gentleman
was reading the Cabbage Leaf
News in the sun parlor.
Ready? Ready for WHAT"
asked Mr.. Longears in surprise.
III you mean ready to go look
for an adventure 1 shall most GER
tainly declare that l am. I'm
late, now!"
He started up to look for his
pink twinkling nose-Oh, excuse
me! l didn't mean that! l should
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-19
Kansas CITY Livestock,

Kansas City. Nov. 1S.-Cattle-
Receipts $500. All grades and
classes active. quality plain Beef
steers steady to 25c higher; early
sales, $1,000 1000; Gamers and
butcher stock mostly 25c higher;
bulk Gamers, sS.25 $50; calves
steady; stockers and feeders
strong to Csc higher.
Hogs-Receipts 10000. Mostly
Csc to 4Oc lower than yesterdays
average. Top. S11.90; bulk of sales,
$11.35 m11.S5; good and choice fat
pigs, $11.75@ 1900.
Sheep--Receipts 5000, Killing
classes uneven, mostly Csc lower.
Top natives $1,000; native ewes,
$4.25.