The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-16
Hundreds of Handsome In
fants Crowded Church
Yesterday in Hope
OF a Prize.
MANYENTRlEs sWAMpED Jury

| The promoters OF the baby show,
which was advertised as a part of the
farmers institute proceedings, had lit
tie idea Of the value of advertising or
else they underestimate the faith
which makes every mother a firm be-
lever that her baby is certain to win
the prize if unprejudiced judges award
| it, no matter how many others are in
competition-or they did not know the
allurement of three prizes, one of SIS,
one Of $40 and one Of S. for the best
baby.
The show was advertised to be held
in the Park Avenue Methodist church
at two o'clock Thursday and along
about one CLOCK babies began coming.
They came in cabs, they came huddled
in the arms of adoring mothers, they
came toddling through the bleak March
air dragged along by parents who be-
lieved in exercising their offspring.
Then they crowded into the church. AS
many mothers as could filled the chairs;
those that couldn't stood patiently
bolstered up against the wall holding
their infants, until that space was filled
and then the others stood and waited
Waited-waited
Judges are Besieged.
Drs. Helen Harbert, S. w. Murphy
and j. r. Eastman and Miss Cottreii
were in small room off from the main
hall, trying in vain to cope with the
ever increasing surge of babies. Moth
ers kept crowding into the room trying
to force their children in ahead of 9TH
ers and as no record of the time of
arrival Of given mother was kept, it
only were scored. When FIVE O'Clock,
the closing time had come, only fifty
iest of the many presented and these
had been passed upon even in this man
ner, and the remaining 300 or so had
not even been looked at. By that time
babies and mothers were tired with
their long wait. The judges also looked
wan and exhausted, and the order to
close the hall was received with well
come, even by those who had waited
unavailingly through the afternoon in
the hope of having baby scored.
More examinations were to be made
today and the final selection from the
best ten chosen is to be made tomorrow.
Babies Were Fine Lot.
Among the babies seen in the crowd
ming specifically picked out the like
ed place were many handsome, sturdy
youngsters, red checked, bright eyed
and they looked as if under ordinary
circumstances without the drawback of
crowding to affect their dispositions
they might have been happy, laughing
children. There was hardly one in the
whole lot that did not have some de-
cided claims TO the longed for first
prize, so far as the casual observer was
was impossible to systematic the pro-
cedure of examination Finally all
idea of giving more than cursory' ex-
aminations to begin with, was abandon
ed. The judges hurriedly after exam
able to decide.
And while the babies We're attracting
attention upstairs, down in the base
ment Miss Frances Beck of the high
school domestic science course, assisted
by Miss Bernice Lowe of Pleasant
Prairie, was busy demonstrating how
to serve nutritious and attractive dishes
made of substitutes for meat at much
less cost. She boned and baked a
whitefsh on plank, made lentil GRO
quettes and cheese fondu and allowed
her large audience to taste the dishes