Dunedin Baby Show.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 229, 25 August 1884, Page 2

Dunedin Baby Show.

The recent Baby Show at Dunedin seems to have been productive of great amusement. There were prizes for twins, for the handsomest baby, for the lightest baby, for the heaviest 1 jab}*, for the curliest-headed baby, the best nine months baby, the baby with most brothel's and sisters, the most tasteful ly drmed baby, the darkest eyed baby, the best all-round baby, and the most crying baby. The Star says :— It would, of course, be an ; impossibility to please all the mothers of the competing babies, and it is hot therefore surprising that when Hhe awards were made a great deal of jealousy and envy found vent for expression. One fond mother was to be seen on the pavement m front of the hall appealing to the passers-by to decide if her child had not the most curly head possible, while another burst into the committee^room and demanded why her hopeful had not been awarded a prize as the reddest headed baby. The reply was that there was no prize for such a specimen, upon which the justly-excited parent bounced out with the remark " It's a blessed shame." Another mother who took a child into the twin department said to the judges when the competition was over : " You have not looked at my child yet." The judges replied that they had not done so because the class was for twins. " But mine is a twin," replied the mother. " Where is the other, then V asked the judge. " Oh ! he's dead," was the astounding reply.