The San Francisco call., 1910-08-28

ally are planning, and it was an over
whelming success.
From the baby show with it's 20 or
so entries, beginning the afternoons S
festivities, to the last dance in the
early hours of this morning happiness
supreme All the children were there,
the children of Burlingame, San Ma
teo and all the surrounding towns,
and they had their own playground
with swings and slides and sandhills
and goats to ride, and merry go rounds.
And then there was a real fairyland.
all q wonderful mass of pink flowers
and lights, with Little Boy Blue and
Little Red Riding Hood. Old Mother
Goose, the old woman who lived in a
shoe and the other dear old friends of
our childhood days in little booths of
their own in among the high grass
and flowers, dispensing horns and
whips, the toy lambs and dolls and
other things equally dear to juvenile
hearts. A large orange tree in full
fruit had each orange full OF a sur
prise of some kind and a fshpond added
another feature particularly designed
for the very small people.
The -dra gon's head booth was special
ly planned for them too, with its evil
looking mask leering over the door
way under boughs of eucalyptus and
Towering acacia. From it's mouth hung
10 strings with rings attached and one
of the 10 bore prize. Whoever pulled
a prize from the depths of the dagon's
cave became a source of interest for
the afternoon, grown ups as we'll as
youngsters keeping the turf before the
monsters resting place we'll trodden
while his hidden treasure lasted.
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
OF course, there were ice cream
booths and a tamale booth, a candy
kitchen and a Japanese tea garden as
wen as a cafeteria, where you could
take your tray and help yourself to an
array of good home cooking. Then
there were cakes and pies and salads
for sale, and cool beverages, strictly
nona1coholic for Buringame is a tenn
perance town, and in all of these the
children reveled.
And then. the crowning feature for
them was the grand baby show, when
they We're rolled by in their floral baby
carriages TO the Judges stand for in
spection, each dressed in his or her
finest and daintiest and best. So no
partiality would be shown the Judges
were out-of-town people-Mrs. Murray
Orrick, Mrs. Charles Melrose and Mrs
Kenneth ". Green. To little Dorothy
Carleta Pinkham, the IL months old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Harry Pink
ham, went the first prize, an exquisite
little dress.
NONE FORGOTTEN
Lyle Miller. the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
s. Miller, won a silver mug for his
nest of baby roses and ribbons and
10 months old Harry Cronin carried
off a. silver knife, fork and spoon But
none of the babies was forgotten. Each
one received prize of some sort and
went away rejoicing
The day was perfect Burlingame
one. The carnival was held in the
town square, so dancing could follow
the vaudeville show and concert of
the evening, and pink, blue and white
pennants. with red and yellow flags
and streamers, and Old Glory floating
over all, helped to make the spot at
tractive. Eucalyptus boughs and
ferns, smilaX and palms, and yards
of gay bunting went into the decora-
tion scheme, each booth having its
own novel feature in the way of or
namentation. and for the night hun
dreds of red and yellow lanterns were
hung to shed the appropriate festive
glow over the scene. The children had
their hours in the afternoon. but after
hasty home dinners the grown ms
came into their own. They played
their wheel of fortune and the slot ma
chimes for cigars. tried their luck with
rifle and ring, had their fortunes told
by tea leaves and palmistry, had more
than one supper in the brightly lighted
cafeteria, and went to the show or
listened to the band until dancing
began
BATTLE OF CONFETTI
The children had their races in the
afternoon; their elders enjoyed more
sedate ones in the evening and fnorA