BABY SHOWS UP-TO-DATE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 5

BABY SHOWS UP-TO-DATE.

.STANDARDISING BABIES, ( Women are finding out with very gen»al satisfaction their part in the agita-' lion ..for a healthier race, and healthpving conditions, that is going'on all iver the country (says the New York 'Evening Post"). In some instances chey are falling in with prophylactic^,and sanitation schemes devised by men. In others they are tnking the initiative and devising such schemes of their own. In lowa they • have recently given, and "are 3till_ giving, a particularly striking illus- ' iration of women's ability to mako tho practical application and to begin at the .. leginning -when she sets about it- Out :here attention has centred on healthier Rabies. Under the direction of Mrs. Mary T. Watts and Dr. Margaret Vaupel Clark. ' , the women of the Stato have gone in" • lor scientific baby-raising. • That is to say, they have established certain standards, of body and mind to , which, babies ,must measure up. They / .fiavo established, too, a system of fairs , to stimulate competition, and they have \ chrough thus getting hold of the imagination of an,agricultural people, created i demand fur information as to how to ' faiso standard babies. This information, • by coming into the hands of. the individual mother, has resulted in the improvement; and development of tho individual ' baby to such an extent as to raise .visibly !h« record in the total. •' • . Tho standards aro new standards. Dimples and curls scoro relatively , low. ,''Hand-grasp, rising, arid sitting poise; muscwar quality, sound teeth, and mental ■ reaction" score high. TKo idea has spread rapidly among women. Between thirty \ and forty States have-inaugurated the ; oi scientific baby shows.' Bringing TheniMJp to Standard. . ' Mothers declare they intend to raise; standard babies and fathers 'are interested: Fathers, have long been.accused .of. a disposition to "leavo it to mother" in .the matter of questions'whoso answers are to' bo found in the Shorter Catechism. But if .tho question is to bo a question of soundness : of mind, length of limb, firmness of flesh and skin, fathers ivj.ll havo a hand in a raising that is promising to . bo interesting. .Of course, women's clubs are getting interested, too. They list it for consideration as "tho Jowa plan."; Women's. : <flubs havo long been interested' in health questions. The' General Federation has, its one of its strongest depArtments, a "department of public health." Tho chairman.of that department is Mrs. S. S.

:Crpckett, of Tennessee. She has subdivid- i ed the department worlc su that oiiadivi- I ision 'is conducted under tile/title, VGhil'" I Hygiene,"; with .Mrs. Lafpn "ilyker, of 1 Harrodsburg,. Ky., as its chief. ;• • • : Then-thorp-is the division of social-hy-giene, under Dr. Kachelle Yarros, of Hull House, .Chicago, u _ division that places emphasis on eugenics,, and. thus relates Itself directljto the "better babies" question. ; Dr., Yarros is the woman whose address on "The Larger Significance of the Social Hygiene Movement" delivered before the biennial meeting last year made such au impression. Believing that a modification of; the ■ present educational ! system, so far as social morality is concerned, will result eventually in a finer and stronger typo of man and woman, with higher ideals and wider knowledge, this department' is seeking the co-opera-tion of the llprgy, the press,, and health, boards in a campaign of education, and reports that clubwomen are taking hold of the matter in increasing numbers.

to wear several, depending upon the weather and his mood. When it was very cold,. he had as many 'as three on, one atop of,the other. Hcjeb-Jet is not greatly embarrassed with clothes, her one-piece, close-fitting garment seeming not uiiliko tho extremist costumo of the present day, 'and it is trimmed with fringe about its edge, like that of the lovely Copt m ono of the first rooms of the collection. •Youthful at Fifty. Then there is also that well-preserved lady of fifty of. the Xllth Dynasty, exact details of whose costume are well known. | Sembtes Sit-Hapi she was, and lived some four thousand years ago, but her jewellery is still'with us. A circlet of twisted gold wirj and gold rosettes form an artificial wig, necklaces of gold, silver, beryl, cornelian, and. ivwy beads; two elaborato bead collars,: a*' verydelicate girdle composed of beads of gold, carnehan, beryl, lapis-lazuli, end ivory. This girdle is ma do with long fringes, hanging about tho waist and well down on .to the skirt, not unlike tire modern jewelled tunic. Lastly, anklets a-nd. armlets finished ofTthis lady, who had not laid aside tho frivolities ot youth at .fifty. , , ' 1 , If the wifo of the royal treasurer and of Sembtes, of the household of Senuscrt are not sufficiently distinguished, there is, for tho copying, that ravishing goddess of Truth, named Maat, who crouches by the side of "tho tomb of Septah Splendid .wings of blue and green fold back and away from the slender body, like the wmgg of a gorgeous dragon-fly. Black and gold-banded collars make the beautiful Egyptian curve of tho neck which is ovtTywhore seen, and on her head a headdress of bluo holds,a single erect foather, quite a la twentieth century. ~—: PROPER STUDY OF WOMANKIND That the 'ra'c'e of • husbands knows its wives may be doubted. That the race of wives knows its husbands is undoubted. The man goes flourishing forth on his path of many interests. The woman sits at homo and broods over her single interest—the man. By dint of brooding she absords, and accepts or rejects him. _No man can- hope to escape trom the serious study of a woman, continued lor sixteen hours daily. Every piece of evidenco that her senses have observed is scrutinised, analysed, classified. Her niiud soaks the man as liquor soaks a lump of sugar. The sugar is dissolved; the man 'is solved. Most men, it is true, are simple enough. But the most complex men become simple when subjected .to ..the concentrated and continued scrutiny of brooding wo-