The Washington herald., 1911-11-11
EVERY BABY WILL
GET SQUARE DEAL
In the Contest Which Ends
Next Thursday.

Two men hustled into the car and sat
down beside me. The first man immedi-
ely pulled his Herald out of his coat
rocket and opened it up quickly at the
Toman's page.
II want to see the kids" he excused
himself to his friend.
The little faces that were turned to his
as his eyes hastily scanned them were as
] beautiful a strip of babies as any one
| would ever want to see.
"Homely bunchI' he muttered under
| his mustaChe.
The second looked them over, and i'm
mediately his face became wreathed in
smiles, and his chest swelled Oerceptibly.
Why, I never saw so many beautiful
children together at one time" he re-
marked, and, turning to the first man,
| added:
That's my cub" pointing to one of the
most winsome babies in the row of eight.
"Oh, yes: so it is" mumbled the first
man with a poor show Of interest, for
you see the one dear face he wanted to
see looking back at him from the paper
was not there Friday morning, and the
fact cast shadow over the other fair
little tots as far as he was concerned.
Difference in Point of View.
But the second man could talk of moth
ing else except the Borden Baby Contest
all the way into town, boring the first
man to extinction with the oft-reiterated
brilliant deeds and saying of the little
tot that is certainly the most beautiful
baby in Washington to father whether
the judges decide that he is or otherwise.
Many mothers have 'phoned me or writ
ten me to express disappointment that
their little ones pictures did not appear
in the paper just as soon as they were
entered in the contest, many of them
arguing their points of beauty to me over
the wire or by mail, as the case might be.
Now, listen dear, anxious mothers of
all the lovely babies,
You must not let your interest in the
Borden Baby Contest with its long list
of DO prizes, blind you to the desires and
interests of others.
You must try to remember that there
are many women who read The Herald's
Page for Every Woman. who have
neither husbands nor children-women
who are interested in other subjects. To
them the show of lovely babies seems a
selfish piece of business planned only
for the mothers who read the woman's
page and designed to exclude them ut
terly.
Must Consider Others.
Do you think then it would be fair
to them to publish rows upon rows of
baby pictures day after day, with never
discussion nor talk along topics of ,
different appeal?
And this is not what would happen
II I gave space to all the pictures that
are requested for publication in this page.
Every picture entered in the contest
will be published eventually. and their
size or position in the paper will have
no effect upon the prize awards.
The judges will make their decisions
only from the photographs submitted,
and not from the prints that appear in
The Herald, as some mothers seem to |
think will be the case.
To-day ends your chance to have free |
pictures made at the Bachrach Studio, |
as any taken after to-day there could not |
be finished in time for the closing Of |
the contest. which is next Thursday, |
November I6.
Pictures will be received until that !
date. and the last will receive just as
much careful attention as the first, SO |
that you need have no fear in the world |
that your little one will not get a
square deal.
The judges selected to make the prize |
awards will be chosen from prominent |
business and professional men of Wash |
ingtOn, and their names will be announc- |
ed to you in few days. J. c. ".