The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
BABY SHOW RULES
MADE BY HUMORISTS
Suggestions Submitted to
Managers Must Be Pass
ed Upon-Not.

There have been a number Of face
tious suggestions made to the Luna
Park Baby Show officials as TO the rules
OF the contest.
Despite the fact that 1t has been
stated repeatedly that there are no
rules except that the children entered
must be under four years of age, and
that the entries must all be in by Fri
day night. these friends and well wish
ers Of the success of the undertaking
have persisted in their efforts. and have
gone so far as to draw up a set OF reg
ulations which they ask the judges be
requested to use as guides. The rules
are so at variance with the ideas of
the managers that they are printed for
the benefit of anxious mothers who
want to know what points will not be
considered:
Hair-Quantity and quality. Any baby
whose mother has put a saucer on its
head and cut around it is disqualified.
Teeth-No second sets allowed. Must
be bona f de. Applicants must be able
to indent the finger Of any judge so in
clined
Eyes-BIue takes that color Of ribbon;
gray follows next.
ma and papa. and Uncle Johnnie. recit-
ing 4 Loaned My Pony" and giving
French kisses 70 strangers.
Chubbiness-More than three wrinkles
to the wrist means disqualification.
Disposition-This is a double-starred
point. Any baby VINO works more than
six nights a week not to be considered.
Mas idea about the baby-Worthless.
F,lgs EFf4i-f I,
sidering.
The safe and sane celebration of the
Fourth showed results in the entry list.
Mothers who previously had spent anxi-
Gus DAYS waiting for sons anS daugh-
tiers to be brought in injured were able
to give more time md attention to the
younger members of the family with
the result that twenty-five or thirty en-
tries were received
Twenty-Six New Names.
The new names on the list include:
Geraldine Downey, eight months, I'll
North Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va.
Mary ]. Frances, four years 236 Ninth
street northeast.
Anna G. Frances, eight months. 2Ss
Ninth stree northeast.
Eleanor Hicks. one year. 1910 Sixth
street northwest
J. Stanley Potter, ten months, 1915
Massachusetts avenue southeast.
John RObb, fifteen months, 90 l. street
northeast.
Mary L. Judd. five months, 33e Thir-
teenth street northeast
Edward Dick, four years, 119 Bates
street northwest.
Mary F, Beal. four months. r. F. D.
No. 2 Alexandria, Va.
Dorothy Dick, one year. 119 Bates
street northwest.
William Z. Rapp, sixteen months, 1912
Twenty-fifth street northwest.
Elizabeth Travis, four months, 30
Eighth street northeast.
Joseph England, three years, 915
Twenty-second street northwest.
Paul r Little, two months, 134T Mary
land avenue northeast.
Margaret z. Stott. No. Police Sta
ton.
Ruth Nail, eighteen months, 2oz
Eighth street northwest.
Alfred Roseman. one year. Tl6 Nine
teenth street
Violet RoseInan. two years. Tic Nine
tenth street.
Nellie Mitchell. eleven months, $40 I
street southeast.
Arthur Dixon, three years. Rel Ray.
Va
Lee street. Alexandria, Va.
Lilly NJ. Mccormack, four years, 1925
Bladensburg road northeast.
Edna May Jenkins, nineteen months,
Glen Echo, Md.
Katherine N Alexander, eight months.
| 50 Thirty-fOuzth street northeast.
Frances c. Pearl. eleven months. III
II street northeast.
Amory T0wnley Ellis, eighteen
months, 1912 Ninth street northwest.