The Washington herald., 1911-10-14
In All the Wide, Wide
World.
MOTHERS CAN PROVE IT
Beginning Monday the Warrington
Herald Will Hold n Baby Contest
in which go Valuable Prizes
VIII BE Given to Handsomcst
Children Entered in Competition.
by JULIA CHANDLER MANI.
All the world loves a baby.

d y.
And all Washington loves a Wash
ington baby in particular, for it is a
wcll-known fact all over the country
that nowhere else in the world can
there be found so many beautiful chill
! dren nor babies with manners so
quaint as are seen daily along the prom
cnade whenever and wherever they are
| taken out for constitutional
With radiant smiles they wiggle them
| selves right down into your heart and
make you love them, these little Wash
lngton children, and once they wiggle
in nobody ever forgets them.
Just 10 prove to you that Washing
ton has the most wInsome babies in
America The Washington Herald will
begin a contest on Monday. October 10,
called the Bordcn's Baby Contest, which
will he conducted through The Her
aids Page for Every Woman until No
vcmber 10, in which all babies in
Washington or its vicinity may be en-
tered, provided they are not more than
three wears old.
VIII be Judged by Pictures.
The babies will he Judged by their
pictures, in order that they may be
saved the ordeal OF spending hours
with the Judges. which is the trying
feature of most baby contests to both
the child and its mother
This contest. the PARTICULARS of which
arc given this morning elsewhere in
The Washington Herald, is to take the
place of the puzzles for a month. Two
hundred and twenty prizes will be given
away, none of which is Of any small
value. and TO make the entry of every
baby in Washington and its vicinity
possibility to its mother, The Wash
ington Herald has made arrangements
with the BackTach studio, 1881 F street
northwest, to take a photograph free Of
charge of any baby whose mother has
not a suitable photograph to enter in
the contest.
This eliminates all expense to the
fathers and mothers of Washington and
puts every baby in the District on the
same footing, giving each an equal
chance to win the $50 in gold and other
splendid prizes.
Every Baby Beautiful.
This is going to be Just the biggest
contest ever undertaken, for Every
woman loves a baby, and Everyman,
too. for that matter.
Even Little Girl. who spends long
hou in the doll nursery. has a big
mother heart that takes in the whole
doll family from the beautiful dancing
French lady doll down TO the rag baby
that has gotten a little soggy from be
ing given "a dInk' through a hole made
in the place where the mouth IS
marked
No one would dare tell Little Girl
that the rag doll to whom she has min
iStcred is less beautiful than the French
lady, for her love makes them equal
And 80 it is with Evcrymother.
Motherhood glorihes the little fea-
lures Of the wee fairy in every home, |
and the world looks on with such keen
sympathy that it comes to see bit |
through the eyes of the mothers love. |
else why would VIC declare so decidedly |
that there IS something very lovely and |
most wnsomc about Fverybaby?
Be very sure that the judges selected |
TO decide the 29o prize awards will not
only be prominent men of Washington, |
but will also be lovers of babies.
And O the time they will have when |
hundreds of trusting eyes look into |
theirs from as many photographs, and
but half concealed dimples WOO them to
favorable decisions.
SO, if you have no recent picture of
baby you may just clip the coupon
which will appear daily i'll The Herald.
and have one made absolutely free Of
cost to YOU. submitting same to the
Borden Contest Editor, of The Wash
ngton Herald, just as soon as you have
/ ready.