Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-10
TIE BABY SHOW, CHILD BEAUTY WINS A PURSE FOR SWEET UHARITY'S
 SAKE.
A Festival of Innocence and Beauty.
 The Prize Winners.

The baby show held Saturday afternoon at Merrill Institute under the auspices of the Ladies Hospital Association was triumph for babyhood. It was baby show be- YOnd q doHbt-a baby show with many interesting accessories. Whom does baby show fail to interest? Not anyone with a glean of purity in his soHl, not the maiden who some day will become q mother, not the young man who will some day become q father, not the paase maiden who loves all children be- cause she is woman, not the bachelor who is fond of the dear little ,reatures because he once was a baby and was folded to sleep on q mothers bosom to the sweet eroon of mothers voice.
 If we were all babies aforetime we surely have had mothers so proud of us as to caress us and toss LIS up and down and rain kisses upon our tiny lips and declare Us the dearest and prettiest little darlings in the world. And so on yesterday at the show motherhood disclosed its old times and most charming weak ness-intenSe admiration of it's own offering. The competition for the prizes offered and named below pre- sented numerous amasive features, ahd the only ones utterly indifferent to the result were the babies and tots who were the supposed, con- testants. About fifty-five children were entered for the prizes and as the dOting mothers ushered them forward for the critical inspection of the judges their countenances re vealed supreme confidence felt in the superlative loveliness of their precious offspring. And it is abso- lutely true that many lovely chid- ren were in the contest. The fact is that it is almost impossible for any little child to be homely since innocence and helplessness seem always to invest infancy with peculiar charm, and in the placid depths of a child's big, guiless eyes we catch our best slimpses of heaven.
 In the award of prizes the child- ren were arranged in seven classes and to each class first, second and third prize was given. The third prize in each class was q consolation prize, and was confe9ted for by all ill the class who failed to win a first or second prize. The following are the names of the prize winners:
 Class l.-Fer children siN months of age and under.
 First piize-Emma Virginia Mills.
 second prizg-bath Austin.
 Third prize-Dorothy Reese living ton.
 Fourth prize-W n Roe Brewster.
 Glass 2.-From six months to one year of age.
 First prize-Jerome York Trigg.
 Second prize-Mary Allen.
 Third prize-Cora Etta Young.
 Class 3.-From one year to two years of age.
 First prize-Sianey Smith, Jr.
 Second prize-Charles Moore, Jr.
 Third prize-Wm. Mccullough Cotter.
 Class 4.-From two to three years of age.
 First prize-Hettie Elizabeth Adams.
 Second prize-tlharles Graves.
 Third prize-Winner's mother re fused to accept award.
 Class 5.-From three to four years of age.
 First prize-Jesse Core.
 Second prize-Mary Lee Sallee
 Class 6.-From four to five years of age.
 First pri2e-James Moore.
 Second prize Eunice Sullivan.
 Third prize-Ruth Blum.
 Class From five to six years of age.
 First prize-Wm Parker, Jr.
 Second prize-EstelIe Holland.
 Third prize-C. A. Troupe.
 The first prize in first class was celluloid toilet set; second, white kid shoes; and third lconsolatiopl bottle of toilet water. Awarded by Messrs. $. A. R 5senberg. J. Katzen- stein and Walker Drug Co.
 First prize, class two. celluioid toilet; second. bronze shoes; third, baby cap. Awarded by Mann