The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-03
AN UNUSUAL SHOW.
Horticultural Hall
Crowded With All
Sorts of Babies.
SEVEN SILVER CUPS AWARDED.
Mothers and Cherubs Fra
ternize With No
Friction.
SEVEN SILVER CUPS AWARDED.

Worcester had a baby show yester-
day. It was held in Horticultural hall,
from to 4S0 o'clock, and although it
was good fun for the entries and en-
terers and the public, Messrs. Brown
and Thompson, the promoters, were
not in sanguine mood when the thing
was over. 1T was a success socially, "
remarked Mr.. Thompson, but ftnan-
cially not. I counted on about 1000 per-
sons, instead of which there were about
$50. Then the advertising footed up
very dear. We are out of pocket about
SIS by the show We run up against it
like this sometimes. We have just been
giving baby shows in Concord, N. H.,
Fitehburg~ and Lowell. and. after Wor-
cester- we go to Lawrence, Hayerhill,
Springfield and New York state. Giving
baby shows is part of my business"
Mr. Thompson looked at it from the
professional standpoint, but to the sis
tiers, cousins, aunts and, most of all,
mothers. who hitched their baby bug
gies outside Horticultural han yester-
day afternoon, it was in every way a
grand success There were in all some
thing
LESS THAN 100 BABIES
entered. instead of the 400 so magnif-
Gently prophecied in the advertise
,ments, but no one missed the other
300, unless it were Mr. Thompson. Seats
were arranged in hollow square
around the hall, and in these the moth
ers ranged themselves with their in
fants. variegated, fascinating border.
Some of them got there early, for there
was much baby prinking to be done, in
the way Of peeling off sundry outer
garments, doctoring here bow of baby
ribbon, there a sash, and combing friz-
Zles and chris TO the last degree of per-
lection. The babies who could walk
started off 20 explore the han as soon
as their toilets We're complete, for they
had brought Their toys along, and found
great amusement in steering their
steam engines and market wagons
along the cracks in the floor, or guild
ing them back to a safe harbor in
mother lap. There was one youngster
who was Just beginning to creep. He
would stand UP for a ghost of a second,
then down he would plump on his fat
palms and knees and begin padding
away across the auditorium floor. He
had one what Harpers Bazaar would
call a "crea tom of white lawn and
Val lace, and each time he was pulled
up from, his favorite stamping ground
by his mamma the creation" was seen
to have taken on a darker tone. That
frock was a candidate for the wash
tub inside of an hour.
One dear little thing, that had been
in this vale of tears but one, short
month, found the hubbub and hurly-
burly too much for its little eyes and
mind, and accordingly fell asleep early
in the afternoon and stayed asleep I'M
til called upon by Mr.. Thompson to
walk up and receive it's prize.
The babies made themselves at home
wonderfully. They all went visiting
each other. except the babies in arms,
who remained anchored to their moth
ers. During the long wait before the
awards We're declared, the
MOTHERS WAXED SOCIAL
also. and exchanged unnumbered conf
dences as to Freddie's teething and
Irene's colo, and Willies difficulty in
learning TO walk. But every ones eye
was engaged in following the circum-
navigations of the tots, as they darted
hither and yon, sometimes colliding
with other babies, sometimes bringing
up againstla grown person. In that case
it was the baby who succumbed.
There was one exciting moment, WheI
three tottlers collided with howl in the
middle of the floor. Each ones legs
went up in the air, and each little per
son sat down promptly just where he
happened to be, while three anxious
n1ammas from as many sides of the hal
skated anXiously across to the heap oil
oh 6y-cY 10 WI 70 hn- 4
Usually at a show of live stock the
exhibits are displayed in cages. The
exhibits yesterday were not Gagged
You walked around, peering into the
arms and laps Of the mothers, or else
lacking this way and that through the
center OF the hall, which presently be.
came crowded with spectators and ex.
hibitors unable to move themselves tC
chairs. The number of men was sur
prising.
Particular children received espec.
i9i attention Little Florence Dorells
Arronquier, the ne-month-old baby Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Arronquier wai
a, sinecure for many eyes. It seems a!
If Florence had hurried to get horned
on purpose to be exhibited If she con
tinres taking prizes at the rate SHE
has begun with, she will have
AN AMPLE DoWRY
by the time she marries. Stella Domi-
mes, the three-rnonths'- daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs William Domines, of 25'
Park avenue, was another blue ribbon
exhibit. She has the blacklist eyes, &
complexion of the finest texture, anc
an astonishing head of coal black curls
Her mother said she was born with {
lot of halr.
The exhibition of twins was some
what disappointing. Those far-fame(
pfebald twins of Concord, N H.. whC
took the pSize there at the recent ex
hibition-one white, one black. the off
spring Of colored parents-were de
tanned by Illness, but George and Will
liam Vigneault, three years Of age, were
there, and so were Charles and Anna
Miller, and Helen and Florence Dowd
The judges were chosen in secret
three Of them, and who they were, only
Mr.. Thompson and the judges them.
selves know. At AIS their awards were
ready, and Mr.. Thompson climbed upor
the platform, wrapped for order anc
began to announce them. Before hin
on table were spread enticingly elght
silver, gold-lfned cups, and as he reat
the names Of the prize winners he in.
grafiatingly held out cup in his hand
The awards were as follows