The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-30

Did you ever. get up a baby show We'll then. try it; it's lots of fun and lots of trouble The world loves funny things and the revolving wheels of time bring
 trouble. Life is a varied problem. We
 all have to halt on the>wayside to pick
 up our burden, to bear our share In the
 destiny of man. No matter where we
 turn, or what we undertake. there Is
 something to give us pause, we cannot
 turn away from 1t, it is fate, it Is duty,
 or a something we cannot change. No- where, whate'er we do we cannot escape our share of trouble. This planning for
 baby show gives you many peeps into
 mothers hearts. They all see the plant they have borne and nourished through
 the tender eyes of love; they know the real melody of their prattle-each out stretched hand tells them something they
 are eager to hear.
 1 We are asking for entries for the baby show at the Alabama State fair, any age 1 from a month to three years, with spe- cial class for girls between 8 and 1, and
 we want their pictures-a good many have l been sent, splendid lot of children too.
 Many come with recommendations from
 mamma, and where silence prevails we
 read between the lines.
 | Boys are usually more reticent about
 their beauty but today we have more l boys to show than girls, and a greater number of both sexes between the ages of l and years. Ensley leads in num- 1 bers.
 | rr+fH 1,,.i,, 1 package of girls by mail and tomorrow l the boys double their numbers. We are
 watching all of the phases of this baby l show, because we don't know how long we will live afterward. We have taken 1 the precaution to carry life insurance l This baby show will mean more than a beauty show. It will mean an intelligent
 score for the child's welfare. Doctors will judge. They will measure, weigh note pulse. temperature sight, weakness | and health--the information a mother | wants. If it is not a 100 per cent babe why and where to begin to build up Babes eat differently these days; they l sleep differently, in fact, they watch the | clock more closely, and maybe this is l why they are designated better babies ' l Grandmother cannot help much witt 1 the modern babies these days either, be I cause she don't know the rules. Now, we | want the grandmothers to come to tho | baby show so they may 'get busy" The nursery rhymes are not needed to rocl | the baby to sleep. Now in their stead the | modern "pacifier" has been introduced and some of us are sorry this invention did not exist long years ago
 | Last year we handled several hundred | babies in one day. We learned thinl or two-it is no easy Job, so we are going to give more time to the babies, nor,
 days to the judges, and more room fol the mothers, and spare the doctors w | shall have a private room for the judge
 and a trained nurse to help him, and ther we know we will have a better baby show.
 This week we will mail out the entire programme to the mothers, and one tt
 each of the papers, and beginning Thurs day, September g, at 10 a. m MT. Ser l Jacobs will be at home to the babies
 at the furniture store of Ben M. Jacob.
 & Bros, 1913 Third avenue. There vii
 be a set of scales and all of the babies 1 will be weighed-those up to 1 year ole
 only that day. There will be more thar one day, in fact, the Jacobs are going tC have several spend-the-day parties. We