The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-09-11
Tria5s sf Photographer in His Ef.
f0rtS 10 Take a Picture OF Forty
0aa Live B..0ieS ut Once.

Last Saturday Killingly, Connecticut
had q baby show. 1t came of in The
I Congregational Church, and writer il
the Hartford Times describes the afI.ril
I thus:
/ "There were little babies and big ba'
bies--sweet tong les and Sqnaily
| tongues-IigIt babi = and DARK
I babies - blondes and brunetIes
the latter was one nf the African
type. with a little round head Ikea bul-
let, and ewes ditto. There was u baby
from BROOKLYN. New York, and one
from Providence. The handsomest ba-
by of all, and the most richly dressed
too, was a baby from Brooklyn, Connec-
ticut, but its mother refused to enter ii
on the list of prize contestants, not wish
ing to put il on exhibition or 10 make a
prize baby of it. Over fifty babies werc
entered ON the list, and fnrtv-nne wer,
preeent. Four of the fifty died before
the day arrived. When they were all
collected, a photograph Of the whole lot
MAS taken IN the arms uf mothers ain.
nurses, sitting on the ffo1it steps of In,
church. But the task of arranging for
" one babies to be photographed all al
once proved rather formidable: Fifteen
or twenty at time coJd be managed
very comfortably, but as fast as thest
Others threw up their arms or heels anf
squealed. Some doul led up their fist,
and punched their mothers in the face
| volunteered d TO hold small, lympha1-
ic infant, which kept ON its good hehav-
ior tried 10 get the little African, bu
it was otherwise engaged. The baby tha
sat just behind me fastened both fists in
to my hair and act up lusty howl, il
concert with another one on the ief'
who had for some time been sOundin
all the notes of the gamut. TIE indie
fatigable photographer kept up the
Tagging spirits Of the baby tenders, an.
his own too, pro ruring fresh plates as fat
as one was spoi Ell by this restless mas
nf babies. At last it WAS announced tha
passahle picture was taken, and the ba
hies adjourn d to the inside of the church
fo rrfreshr ITS and pri. e.. There we
three classes of babies; and a prize fol
the hands pnIest of each class. The frs
class included those between two and
rhree years of age; the second, those be
ween one and two; and the third, thos,
sinder one year, There were three Jnd
geS for each class-nine Judges in all
The child that drew the first prize
solid silver cup lined with gold-was
bright. blue-eyed little girl by the nam,
If Mars Jane HIllowell. The second
orize "a silver knife, fork, and sp"Ol-
vas drawn by Il one year older. Il little
French girl named Exilder Lafe IT.
whose parents live in Kiilin2ly, her faith
r following the brick-making business.
The third prize-t silver napkin ring
ya- d avn by bright little Punat baby
named Ch1mplain. Whether boy or
.irl, didl't leIrn. \ baby judge does
It occupy the most pleasant position in
the world. If there are forty babies to
j,,dge you must inevitably riie the feel
irgs of thirty-nine mothers, for each one
kinks her own the handsnmest. as every
crow TIM Ks tsown the whitest. THAT
,aby got the prizer said a woman, curl
ng up the hair of a little dot Of thing
That baby got the prize? Humph! ]
lnow of good many handsomer than
hat one! And she gave vigorous brush
o each curl, as if to emphasize the fact
hat her baby was handsomest, prize or
no prize"