BABIES NOT DOLLS
At an age when many girls are still playiug^rwiti,;! their, dolla -a...group of schoolgirls in New; York ;;wiir be handling live babies > and training them iii/ih© way they should go. < Girls' who. are being educated tinder the' famous Calton plan will take part in a novel plan designed to, raise "the perfect baby," and also to train prospectively "the perfect mother." The plan is;an. attempt to give* infants every advantage known to medical science and psychology, at the same timb inculcating in girls a love for children amd the ambition' of motherhood. A, committee of physicians will choose the babies, whose mothers -will all be Yorkers unable to take.earn of their children during the day. £he children must be in perfect healtfi before they are chosen, and it will be one .of^the-; tasksf6j(:^e';'Mh6olji^la',tp\'i|ei'' that-.they remain so.' The girta-vwill' receive the babies in the morning, will bath them, and will give* them th« right food, prepared by themselves under the supervision of a taained'aurse.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 19
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166BABIES NOT DOLLS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 19
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