The Washington times., 1915-04-21
B|GRUSH HASbEGUN
IN BEAUTY CONTEST
1t Has approximately Ten Days
More to Run-AWard to Be
F, Made Early In May.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL
Girls Living in Maryland and
Virginia May Enter Through
Other Papers.

The popularity OF The Times beauty
contest. with it's offer OF a free jour
ney to the Pacific to the most beauti-
full young woman in the District Of
Columbia. was attested today by in
quiries from three States concerning
entries.
Although the contestants entered
through The Times must be residents
Of the District of Columbia, the pho
tograph of an attractive Pennsylvania
strl reached the Beauty Editor, a
Maryland subscriber Of The Times ask
ed " he might enter a girl living just
acfoss the District line. and Virginia
mother. residing at Front Royal sought
to enter a beauty competitor. and ap-
piled to The Times for information re-
garding the possibility of making known
the charms Of a Virginia lassie.
Only girls resident in the District of
Columbia are eligible for entry in the
particular beauty contest being con-
Quoted by this newspaper. but no mat
ter whether the girl lives in Virginia,
Maryland, or Pennsylvania, she will
have an opportunity to have her beauty
passed upon. Approximately fifty
newspapers in the United States are
conducting beauty contests, and the
girls of these States may be entered
through local newspaper.
All May Enter.
The Maryland girl may enter through
the Baltimore News: the Virginia girl
through the Richmond Journal, and the
Pennsylvania girl through the Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph.
This is for the information of SUBJ
scribers of The Times who have sought
to enter The Times girls contest who
do not reside in the District.
Having thus disposed of the INQUIRIES
OF outside" beauties, 1t Is proper to
observe that todays mail contained an
other batch of beautiful young women
who reside in the National Capital. and
are eligible to enter the contest of The
Times. The competition has approxi-
mately ten days now to run, and as the
date approaching for closing the entries
there is beginning an eleventh-hou
tractive Washington women.
The Beauty Editor has a desk full of
such photographs, but It Is undoubted-
ly true that there are many more pret-
~ Washington girls whose pictures
have not yet been sent to The Times.
To Make Award Early In May.
Every girl who Is beautiful has a
show in this contest. and one OF her
admirers should see that she Is entered.
Some one girl Is going to be visited by
The Times early in May and informed
that the judges have selected her as
the most beautiful of all the contest,
ants, and that she Is to go. free of all
expense, to the San Diego and Sar
Francisco expositions. This will be q
wonderful journey. to say nothing OF
the side trip to Universal City, called
the Capital Of Filmland. because the
entire town belongs to the moving pic
ture industry.
If you know a beautiful girl ano
have not entered her name and photo.
Rph In this unique and dignified con.
for beauty honors, you may be
bing her an injustice She might be
The wtnner-one can never tell IN ed.
Another Beauty Page"
The Times will soon publish-prob,
ably tomorrow-another page OF photo.
graphs Of young women who are con,
1estants. 1t will be a page of beauti.
ful young women, just as the two prior
beauty pages have reflected good
looking rivals for the journey West
and the contestants themselves and In,
public generally evince increasing IN.
terest as page after page of Washing,
ton beauties are offered in stbstantia.
ton of the claim that this is a contest
worth while, and the judges have a har(
task among them in selecting the mos,
beautiful of all the beauties s,.bInjtted