Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1910 — Fine Baby Show But No Record of the Winners. [ARTICLE]

Fine Baby Show But No Record of the Winners.

■■■■ • / What is a baby? A tiny feather drppped from heaven into the lap of motherhood. What is a baby show? A place where proud mothers bring their offsprings in the belief that they are the prettiest and the best and that any impartial judge will so decide. One of these shows was held in connection with the Rensselaer poultry show last Saturday afternoon, twentyone of the hansomest babies ever born being exhibited before a mammoth crowd and as many mothers beaming with smiles and expectancy as the judges, C. W. Hanley, George Fate and H. A Pickett, passed among them, touching the dimpled hands, tickling the plump chins and trying to decide which should have the distinction of being the prettiest. This proved a difficult task and the judges found it necessary to divide the entries into two classes, one of the younger babies and the other of the older. They then made up a special prize for the youngest and gave three babies a dollar each. The $lO given bjr the poultry association was then awarded to the judges’ selection of the three prettiest of the older class, $5 to > the winner, $3 to the second and $2 to the third. No one seems to have kept a record of who the winners were, except that Mrs. Van Grant was given the first award of the smaller class. Possibly this information will be ascertained within a day or two, and in the meantime all the mothers, can lay claim to the distinction.