The Washington herald., 1911-10-15
BABY CONTEST WILL
BEGIN TOMORROW
Two Hundred and Twenty
Prizes Offered.
By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.
Is your baby winsome and does his
beauty captivate?
Has that little girl Of yours eyes of
heavenly blue and a dimple that no man
could withstand?
Or, are her eyes like dark deep pools
where mystic dreams live and reflect the
frankness and purity of her heart?
The type doesn't matter in the least,
you know, nor does the name or home,
or parentage of the baby count in the
contest that will be on tomorrow.
The judges are to think of nothing
in awarding the 22O valuable prizes Of
fered in the big baby contest except just
baby.
So comb them and brush them and
bring them down town tomorrow to
have their pictures taken that they may
be entered in the COntests-that is If you
haven't a good picture Of them already.
Pictures Will Cost You Nothing.
It will cost you nothing to have the
photograph made; nothing to enter it
it in the contest, and it may mean a
big fat prize 20 yUu-and to baby,
For $50 in gold isn't to be sniffed at
you know, and that is the first prize
which is followed by many, many others
almost as desirable, a list of which you
will find in The Washington Herald to-
morrow together with full particulars of
the rules and regulations of the con-
test, which by the way. are very few
and simple.
The most important requirement is
that the picture Of the baby shall be a
recent one and that the child entered
shall not be more than three years of
age.
Almost as soon as the Rorden's Baby
Contest was announced yesterday,
mothers put their telephones into serv-
ice to ask me a multitude of questions.
Does the baby have TO be a Borden
fed child? was one of the first interro-
cations put by many.
1t doesn't matter in the least whether
you have fed your baby on Borden's
condensed milk or not. In fact the
nourishment which has developed the
little ones beauty and strength will not
be even asked about by the judges.
On, I havn't anything nice enough
to have little Billy's picture taken in, -
walled another anxious mother voice to
me over the wire yesterday.
This is not contest of fine clothes.
and besides. a babv's beauty is all the
more Winsorne wien it is not adorned
with frilIs and furbelows," I told her
Now, please don't let so foolish a sub
ject as fine clothes for Marion or Jane
or Bi'Iy disturb your peace OF mind. for,
as l have said before, it is only the
baby that Counts-that dear merry little
clap or maid who is so dear to you.
Label Your Baby.
There is just one request that I want
to make of every mother who enters ner
baby in the contest. and that is that she
label the picture on the hack. Give the
name, age, sex, and address of the lit
tie one.
1t may seem absurd TO you that any
stant that your little Phoebe is a girl.
Why, just glance - her picture proclaims
that!
Yes, so it does to you-her mother
So il does to me-a woman.
But you and ] are not going to be the
judges in this contest, and these promi-
nent business men who will decide the
prizes. while they know a fine-loOking
baby when they see one and have hearts
full of love for every bright-eyed darling
in the District are just as likely as not
10 write you that your Phoebe, who has
won first prize in the BOrdens Baby Con-
test, is the very lovlest rOllicking boy
thev ever saw in their lives.
And this is why il will be just as we'll
to label your babies pictures before sub
mitting them in the contest
Don't forget that the contest opens to
morrow and that the photographs OF all
contestants will be published.
And be sure that your little one Is given
a chance TO win a valuable prize.