Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-01-13
CHILD BEAUTY WINS A PURSE FOR SWEET CHARITY's
 SAKE.
A Festival of Innocence and Beauty
 The Prize Winners.

A6SOCihliOn Wds u lfiuIHpH ID babyhood. 1t was baby show be yond doubt-a baby show witt many interesting accessories. Whom does q baby show fail to interest Not anyone with a gleam of purity in his soul, not the maiden wht some day will become a mother not the young man who will some day become a father, not the passe maiden who loves all children be- cause she is a woman, not the bachelor who is fond of the deal little creatures because he once was q baby and was folded to sleep on a mothers bosom to the sweet croon of a mothers voice.
 If we were all babies aforetime we surely have had mothers so proud of us as to caress us and toss us up and down and rain kisses upon our tiny lips and declare us the dearest and prettiest little darlings i'll the world. And so on yesterday at the show motherhood disclosed it's 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 amasiye features, and the only ones utterly indifferent to the result were the babies and tots who were the supposed, con- testants. About fifty-fye children were entered for the prizes and as the doting mothers ushered them forward for the critical inspection of the judges their countenanees re- vealed supreme confidence felt in the snperlative l0veliness 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 innoeence and heiplessness seem always to invest infancy with a peculiar charm, and in the placid depths of ehild's big, guiless eyes we catch our best glimpses of heaven.
 In the award of prizes the child ren were arranged in seven classes and to each class a first, second and third prize was given. The third prize in each class was a consolation prize, and was contested for by all in the class who failed to win first or second prize.
 The following are the names of the prize winners:
 Class For children six months of age and under.
 First prize-Lawthan NJ. Austin. q celluloid set.
 Second prize-EL.ma V, Mills, pair white shoes.
 Third prize-Dorothy Reese Bying- ton.
 Fourth prize-W Roe Brewster. Class 2.-From six months to one year of age.
 First prize-Jerome York Trigg.
 Second prlze-Mary Allen.
 Third prize-Cora Etta Young.
 Class 3.-From one year to two years of age.
 First prize-Sldney Smith, Jr.
 Second prize-Charles Moore, Jr.
 Third prize-Wm. Mccullough Cotter.
 Class 4.-Children from two to three years of age.
 First prize-Charles Graves, silver cup.
 Second prize-H Hettie Elizabeth Adams, China cup and saucer.
 Third Winners 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 From four to five years of age.
 First prize-James Moore.
 Second prize-Euniee Sullivan.
 Third prize--Ruth Blum.
 Class 7.-From five to six years of age.
 First prize-Wm. Parker, Jr.
 Second prize-Estelle Holland.
 Third prize-C. A. Troupe.
 The first prize in first class was eelluloid toilet set; second, white kid shoes; and third Consolation bottle of toilet water. Awarded by Messrs. S. A. Rosenberg, J. Katzen stein and Walker Drug Co.
 First prize, class two, eelluloic toilet; second, bronze shoes; third baby cap. Awarded hy Mann Tankersley Drug O., Mir. Isaac Dreyfus and Honnet Dry Goods Co
 First prize, class three, rocking chair; second. cup, saucer and plate third. rocking chair. Awarded b, Puddephatt & Co.,, Smith < Owei and \. Blum X Co.
 First prize, class four, silver cnI second, China cup and saucer; third cup, saucer and plate, Awarded b.