Show I SCALES BREAK AT BABY SHOW AND ANDI I MOTHERS SCOFF AT JUDGES AWARD Strife disputes and a narrowly averted riot were the features of the bab baby show at Wandamere yesterday There were about babies on exhibition and twice as many mothers and other Interested and disinterested parties who watched the ex exhibition exhibition The afternoon was spent In weighing the babies bable Loving cups were given to the lightest the heaviest and the prettiest babies on the grounds The age ase limit was four years ears I Trouble came In the contest for the heaviest baby All the youngsters on the ground were collected In the dancing pa pavilion pavillon villon They were ot of all sizes and shades or of pink and white Some were In their mothers arms anns others hung ou t of car carriages carriages others were pushed In and there were still some who were able to toddle across the floor ris na ing generation had spent about an hour hourin in hi which all laughed when hen one laughed and all cried when one cried a pair or of scales were finally fixed up and a sheet attached to weigh the babies In They Were put In ope oy by one Ion about three hours when Dorothy Dickerson at atten ten pounds was declared the lightest baby and Edward oBrien forty pounds as the heaviest rob baby The contest was about to close and the friends of Baby OBrien congratulating were him when only a minute before the contest cloSed the mother or of Rudger Grither placed him on the scales Just as he was put pa there thereas was as a sharp snap In the scales and down went ent baby cradle and all The fact that the baby was yelling on toe floor made madeno no judges had 1 the youngster heavier than the OBrien baby A wild uproar went up from the women They tried to get In tIle tIe foot space where the jUdges were standing and there ther was an Incipient riot started before could be quiet quieted ed down When the thad sub Id d and the baby picked up from the J floor It was found that no one had been I hurt But the argument was not stopped The women took sides In th thc matter and In a afew afew few minutes there were groups all over oer the floor composed of women of the OBrien faction and those who Insisted tile the GrUher Grither child was the heaviest bab baby on the grounds ground Everybody talked at once and the babies cried Some claimed fraud bribery briber and a thousand other things Suddenly someone in the crowd had a happy thought to take tak the thc babies up town and weigh them The moth mothers rs of the heavyweights agreed to this and there was a procession of about half the at attendance attendance I of the park town ward to set settle settie tie tle the dispute Despite the second trial I Rudger Grittier was declared the heaviest baby on the grounds find nd will be given the sliver silver loving cup The prettiest baby on the grounds who was selected by n a vote of those who col the most coupons at the gate was I Lee Sanders MarIan Rice was second In Inthis Inthis this contest and Gwendolen Anderson third |