Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — NURSE HAD INGENIOUS IDEA [ARTICLE]

NURSE HAD INGENIOUS IDEA

Surely If Use of Makeup Was Ever Justified, It Could Be Defended In This Case. A laugh Is going the rounds over the stunt pulled by one of the attendants at th» orphanage who had waxed enthusiastic tn the work of finding parents for her little charges. On this particular occasion she had interested a young couple in a three-months-old baby and they had promised to call the following day with a view to taking the Infant if she was the dainty dimpled cherub the attendant said she was. And in the meantime the baby contracted a cold, which, on the day she was to be Inspected, had left her thin and pallid. The nurse knew that the child’s chances for being adopted were very slim. Suddenly she hit on an idea. AUp stick and a box of rouge. The very things to make the pallid Nancy into a rose-faced cherub. And so the fairy godmother, being a sophisticated person, painted the lily, and Nancy, with a complexion like roses and cream, charmed her prospective parents and everyone was happy.—Los Angeles Times. Z