EUGENETTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 5

EUGENETTE.

THE FIRST EUGENIC BABY

"WAS BORN LAUGHING." [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] Times— Sydney iSun Special Cables. London, October 8. Born in an atmosphere of cheerfulness and reared practically in the open air, little Eugenette Boice has the proud distinction of being the first eugenic baby. She was born in England, and her father is Harold* Boice, a well-known magazine writer. Eugene is now six months old, and is a bonny, brown-eyed, velvet-skin-ned child with a sunny nature. She already shows a sense of hu our, and is absolutely fearless, and her parents claim that all th,ese attri Imtes are due to their deliberate plan of eugenic training. A sense of un disturbed happiness was always allowed to pervade the home, and everything making for joy and love and beauty was continually, kept in mind 'Mr and Mrs Boice travelled extensively and enjoyed a constant change of .scenery almost up to the time"of the Ikby's birth. They cultivated their sense ", of humour, read funny books, went to the music halls to hear the most comic comedians, and chatted with literary humorists. Dr. Galton, the founder of the Eugenics Society, expressed a wish that the first baby brought into the world under his teachings should be called Eugenic. Mr and Mrs Boice decided on Eugenette.; Engenette was born laughing.