BABY’S BEAUTY

Shannon News, 27 May 1927, Page 1

BABY’S BEAUTY

Parents i nth 6 future may be able to decide what kind of face their : t baby shall grow. up ; with—whether ' oval, with a straight nose, or roundj , with a Roman nose—according to . " Walburga Lady Paget, who makes the remarkable suggestion in an ar- ,'j tide in New Health, the official Journal of the New Health Society.

Lady Paget suggests that by mod- r, elling or shaping children’s faces when they are born, a race of beautiful people, free from physical defects could be reared. She puts for- (I* ward a proposal that a special profession of sculptural nurses shall be !• trained for this purpose., j “

"In these latter days a great art JS has been lost; this is the manipulation of the new-born," she writes. r "This art, which some old people can j still remember being practised by old grand-dames, is now only known to some of the Indian tribes of Mexico. ; Spanish Families. "There the great Spanish families, '■ - when a child is born, call in an old ‘Mamy’ of these tribes to shape the plastic heads, features and limbs of 1 the babies. ’ "The many women who are sculptors or draw would at once know where the little heads ought to be gently rounded—they must see where the oval of the face must b e corrected—the little noses straightened, or the retreating chin brought gently „

forward. “Why not, therefore, train nurses to this beautiful and charitable work, • which might give a chance of happl- ’ ness to thousands who come into a cruel world with a blemish and are tortured. . . every time they catch .a

glimpse of themselves in a. lookingglass? “We have surgeons now, who, after terrible defacing accidents,' can restore features to their former shape; therefore, why not model babies?" -, ; ... - ' - ’ r