New-York tribune., 1907-07-10
Of Interest -
- to Women.
CANARSIE BABY SHOW
Hundreds of Mothers bob Judges,
Each Demanding a Prise.

Babies indestructibe. That was proved con-
clusively Yesterday at the Canarsie Baby Show.
When the mothers moved by the firm resolve of
each to have her offspring first at the judges
broke past the distracted managers and swarmed
into the pavilion where the stand in mob
like the crowd bargain sale. the babies only
looked bored BY their expressions they seemed 10
say that tho CrOwn-ups were always doing queer
things with them, and they supposed this had 10 be
endured like the rest.
There We're hundreds of babies Nobody tried to
count them. They as the grains of sand on
the beach beyond Canarsie and every mother was
entirely convinced that her baby would get prize
Possibly the mothers of the very homeliest had
doubts. which they betrayed, and likewise fortified
themselves against disappointment by remarking
bitterly that, "Oh. well, doubt it all cut and
dried beforehand. anyhow"
The parade was attended with some delay at the
start. owing the propensity of the babies in
arms to get where the babies in carriages We're
meant be. and vice versa. At last it started
OF. marching the strains OF brass band and
headed by Young Newton a. Green in a carriage
bearing triumphal arch of pink roses. The pa
rade was a kind Of Deripatetic luncheon. for most
Of the babies got hungry during the wait. and
their mothers domesrcally fed them as they moved
along, some from bottles and with the re-
freshment provided by nature
The parade went the round of Golden City where
the show held and then the man with the
megaphone told the mothers to take their babies
10 the pavilion to he Judged. A minute after he
sorry he spoke. Like soldiers carrying a
breach the mothers swept 10 the judges stand
Again and again the ropes surrounding the in
closure were swept away, nut HildltE oIueI WIS
restored. The judges felt trihe apprehensve-
They realized how many mothers were there whose
babies would not get prizes Still, there were plenty
OF policemen around.
The manager mounted chair Bring the fat
babies forward he shouted. Any baby under
years. weighing forty-eiEht pounds''-
II wasn't necessary to say more, fOrty-eight
pound babies blossoned every side. one
dumped the managers right arm by its fond
mother. and another landed on his left arm. while
a third mother. in her eagerness. precipitated a
very colossus Of a baby his neck. The manager
not d large man. and he heaved n sigh of
lief when this class disposed of by giving the
palm 70 BABY Pratt.
The prize for the smallest baby went 10 Baby
Hazard. who. at eight weeks. weighs three and
one-half pounds. The only szabe thing about
Baby Hazard her mouth. and that and the
she made OF 1t seemed 10 promise that she
would hil her place in the world. She held
quite reception and afterward woman whose
five pound baby failed TO win prize heard
comforting herself.
Well she said. these small babies don't
care about I like big baby myself and she
gazed proudly at her five pound mite.
The contest for the most strenuous baby was
very exciting. The babies did not exhibit their
strenuosity. but their mothers did. Baby 6hevlin.
who kicked and crowed and batted the manager s
eye when raised aoft clad In his little shirt only