The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-01

G0Wned IN pretty nIGle gown
which would have been becoming to
her grandmother and trundling along
a walk lined by close to ten thousand
people little Marian Ruth Kreiman won
the first prize in the doll parade, the
most beautiful feature of the Home
Coming celebration at the Library
Park Friday morning. The big parade
| Thursday may have been the most
notable parade ever held in Kenosha,
but the doll parade held Friday was the
most wonderfully beautiful pageant.
More than hundred and sixty of Ke-
nosha s fairest children with as many
doll buggies, all decorated in wondrous
manner, marched on the walks in the
park while admiring thousands stood
by and applauded. 1t was a glorious
festival of happy childhood and people
who have attended fetes of the same
kind in other cities and states declar-
ed that it would have done credit to
any city in the union.
It would be impossible to describe
the retinue of 'Flittle Mothers who
trundled carriages in the parade with
little Miss Kreiman. They came from
every part Of the city and they came
bringing every sort of doll convey
ance that could be decorated by the
ingenuity of their mothers. There were
representatives of nearly every ma
tionality. An Armenian, a German,
a Dutch, an Indian, A Scotch Lassie,
Polish and Lithuanian. the italian
and the elaborate decorations of the
equipages in which the dolls rode in
state were only rivaled by the bright
smiles on the faces of the happy child
rem. 1t was the biggest crowd ever
seen in Library Park. The judges of
the contest were Mrs r. II. Welles,
Mrs Fl. J. Winston and Mrs. William
j. Threinen. They had the hardest
job ever offered for any committee of
women. The little eontenders for the
honors of the day marched and re-
marched along the walks of the park
and paraded before the judges and
when their report was being made out
it was found that the judges had more
/ than one hundred numbers which they
considered worthy of consideration
| for the prizes
| Then came the process of elimina-
tion. While the, moving picture cam
era clipped away reel after reel of
! pictures of the doll parade the children
were selected from the long line until
the seventeen to whom the prizes were
to be awarded were finally brought into
circle surrounded by cheering thous-
ands. At the head of the dainty pro-
cession was Marian Ruth and her won
| derful equipage recalling the days of
her grandmother. Then came Gladys
Bayer with wonderfully made blue
automobile, Florence Margaret Burns
was third in line. Her buggy was all
in white and the daintiest of dolls
held the lines driving two spotless
doves. Mercedes Portwine with a
beautiful pink buggy was fourth and
| Blanche Bieneman with buggy liter
ally covered with red peonies was fifth.
| Notable in the prize line were little
| Madeline and Evaline Long who to-
| gether trundled the dainty little white
| Powered buggy in which reposed the
favorite dolly Of each of the children.
| There were a hundred others worthy
| of especial mention. One little tot,
| just able to toddle along in the process
sion, had gayly decorated wheelbar-
row in which little doll was sleeping.
Caroline Monteen with gavlv
decorated Express wagon with Miss
Columbia as the central figure led the
parade of more than a hundred and
sixty children along the walks Of the
congested park.
1t would be impossible to describe
the long list of doll buggies that follow
ed or to tell of the happiness of the
children that pushed them over the
long line of march. Tt viii be a story
that will be retold in Kenosha many
time and the doll parade will be remem-
bered as the city IS most beautiful show
ing of its fairest children. IF all the
stories Of the decorating of the doll
buggies could be written into cold print
and all the heart aches told the story
would be one of compelling interest.
After the doll parade was over the
great crowd went to the south end of
the park where there was a great mass
drill by children of the Kenosha schools.
More than five hundred children took
part in the drill. This had been origin.
ally arranged as a part of the annual
play festival. With the FIVE hundred
children teaching lesson in patriotism
by waving the stars and stripes the
mass drill was one of the most interest
ing events of the home coming cele-
bration.