The Washington times., 1914-12-04
Babies Register
For Annual ShOW
Second Event of Diet Kitchen
Association Will Be Held on
January 20-Prizes viii Be
Awarded.

The second annual Better
Baby" contest of the Washington
Diet Kitchen Association is planned
for January 20 next.
Registration of little contestants
has already begun, and WiH con-
time epery Monday afternoon at
the different diet stations through
ont the city until January ! when
the entries close.
A medal, cash prize, and four
certificates wiH be awarded to the
children registering the highest
scores in the different classes.
By KENDRICK SCoTELD.
Into the Public Diet Kitchen at 1895
half street southwest. a
woman came a few days ago. In her
arms she carried twin babies, four
months old. To her skirts hung a two
year-old toddling girl and her brother,
four years old. The children were four
of the members of family of nine. the
eldest of whom is not yet ten years old.
The mother. a Russian woman, wished
to enter her children in the Better
Baby contest which the Washington
Diet Kitchen Association has planned
for the early part Of January.
The woman was bubbling over with
maternal pride in her large family, for
whom she does all the cooking, wash
ing, ironing. sewing. and homework;
and the youngsters themselves, the diet
nurses declare, were magnificent speci-
mems of babyhood. But the twins were
too young to compete; the boy too old,
and the mother was forced to be con-
tent with registering the two-year-old
girl.
This Russian mother is only one of
many women who have already regist-
cred babies in some one of the four
classes which will make up the baby
show, for, according to the rules gov
erning the contest, no child can be
registered later than January IL, but
until that time on every Monday after
noon between the hours of and 4, chill
dren ranging in age from six months
to three years may be entered for the
Better Baby prizes which the asso-
citation is offering.
This Is Second Contest.
The contest which has just begun is
the second undertaken by the Diet
Kitchen people. The other was held last
November, and eighty-one babies were
examined by the judges before the
award of prizes was determined upon.
But last year there was only one diet
kitchen in the city. Today there are
six: No. 1. 1872 Twenty-eighth street
northwest: No; ?. 2soi washington tor
/. Gospel Mission, a6 John Marshall
place: No. 5. 1875 Four-and-a-haf
street, and No. s, at Friendship House.
So il is that the nurses and physicians
under whose supervision the Better
creased list of entries. for during Oc-
tober last there were 625 babies on the
diet kitchen rolls.
The washington Diet Kitchen Asso-
citation numbers among its supporters
many of the prominent women of Wash
ington. Miss Mary Gwynn is president,
Miss Cornelia Adds. vice president;
Mrs. William A. Hammond, secretary,
and Miss Lulie Williamson, active treas
urer.
On the board of directresses are Mrs.
George L. Bradley, Mrs Allerton Ouch
man. Mrs. Chandler Hale, Mrs. George
Howard. Mrs. James Harlan, Mrs. R c.
Johnston. Mrs. A. G. McClintock, Mrs.
Clarence Moore, Mrs. II. c. Perkins,
Mrs. Kirk Porter. Mrs. ]. H. Merriam.
Mrs. Charles Shepard. and Miss Saran
The baby show, which is open to all
children meeting the requirements of
age in the different classes, awards a
medal. and four certificates for the
best babies in the open contests, as well
as a cash prize for the best station
baby who has been reared on milk
from the diet kitchen.
The Various Glasses.
Entrants in Glass No. for the con-
test must be boys of from six months
10 two years of age.
Class No. Boys between the ages of
two ano three years.
Class No. 3-Girls between the ages of
six months and two years.
Glass No. Girls between the ages of
two and three years.
Entries for the baby contest can be
made any Monday until January II
when the registration will be abso-
lutely closed.
On January Il. IS and 15 the first ex-
animation of the cOntesting children
will be held at the different diet sta
items where they have been registered,
and the parents will be notified by card
OF the hour and location of the exam!-
nation.
The children who rank highest IN