Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — A Remarkably Fine Nose. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkably Fine Nose.

A good story is told of a well known actor who, in a piece in which he was playing “on tour," had to “make up” his' nose to rather large proportions. He generally used a special paste for this purpose: but at one place falling short of paste, he sent a boy ■out to buy seme flour. He used this in the form of stiff dough, painted it to suit his purpose, and went on to tho stage in due course. Presently the nose began to grow and swell. Seizing a moment when ho was not requited behind the footlights the a - tor rushed to his dres-ing-room, tore off the superfluity of nose, again “made up” the rest, and returned to the stage. But still the nose grew, and it was not until the play was ended that the victim had leisure to read the inscriution on the paper in which the material tor his marvelous nose had been brought to him. Then for the first time he saw the words. “Self-raising flour. Re piires no vea-t or baiing-powdor. Mix with a little cold water and set in a wa m place, and in a short time the dough will rise and be ready for baking!”