The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14
THEY MAKE THE BABY FINE.
Specialists Who Promote the Beauty
and Shapeliness of Children.
From the New York sun.


the thought begins to come into the
mothers mind at times that possibly her
child is not the perfection which she has
always thought it to be, and it may be
well to do what she can to remedy the
possible defects of nature. The first idea,
OF course, that enters the parents mind,
| especially when the child is the first one, is
that their baby is the prettiest, healthieSt,
brightest and most intelligent child that
ever came into the world. II requires
some time for this belief to be at all
shaken, though they recall the critical
manner III which they view the first Off
spring of their friends and how hideous
some of these babies seemed to them. 1t
I.often requires some time for parent to
realize that his child is cross-eyed, let
alone such defects as a too large mouth
and mIsShapen nose, scanty eyebrows,
colorless hair, uniformed limbs. II Is hard
| for mOthera father to admit even that
their child is bow-legged or pigeon-toed,
or with crooked shoulders, or any of the
/ other defects which are common enough
IN grown up men and women.
| Some bright young doctors have madea
/ speciality of looking after the case of
! children like tlNese and the profession
! has grown until there are now in New
! York several doctors who find it the most
/ profitable part of their practice and neg
! lect other work TO make a speciality of
! children, not the diseases OF children, for
! II Is the practice of all doctors, especially
| family physicians, to look after these, but
! such defects in children as do not neces-
| sarlly result from disease, and which may
| be cured if taken in time
| There Is no longer any reason why the
! children of parents who can afford TO pay
! the specialists should be bOw-legged,
! cross-eycd, or have Informed noses or
mouths, or be disproportiOned physically,
| unless the dlSprOpOrtion Is of the most
! severe nature. These doctors almost make
child over again. The means they take
are so far as possible those which nature
! would use. If one shoulder Of a child is
/ higher than the other and one arm is de-
! tectlve. ludiCiOus exercise of the defective
! shoulder begun at an early age will tend
! to make that side as good and strong as
! the other. The exercise may be carried
so far as to reverse the disprOp0rtion.
The operations on the eyes are well
known, as they are applied to grown peo-
pie as well, but in early infancy the opera
| lions are less painful and much more sue
cessful. The eyelashes and eyebrows
may be increased in growth by careful
| treatment with inunctiOns and lotions.
Without dyeing in any way the color can
be darkened or made lighter
In like manner the size and shapeof the
ears can be altered by taking the infant
at an early age. PrOtruding or large ears
can be treated so that by the time the
child has grown to bOyhOOd or girlhoOd
the ears will be properly located and OF
normal size. The size and expression Of
the mouth and nose can be altered. Eric
ton and inunctions can make full lips,
while too thick lips can be taken in. The
structure Of the nose can be altered,
though this is an operation not in common
favor, as the nose usually goes with the
style OF face, and change in the nose,
while improving the nose, might do injury
to the general effect
Cuts heal readily in childhood. and the
operations which require the use of the
knife can be performed in such a way
that it would be hard for physician to
discover the traces Of them. and to q
casual observer there would be no sign
that they had occurred. The bones are
soft and the cartilages of the ear and
nose are not gristly and persistent in re-
tanning their form. as in after life.
Unless the malformation in the arms or
legs is serious, il can be cured by exer-
else. rubbing, and occasional braces and
bandages. a shoulder can be raised by
exercise. and short arms can be made 70
grow more rapidly by exercise and fric-
ton. A tendency to knock knees or 10
handy legs can be reformed in much the
same way that young colt is cured OF a
tendency to spreading or to interfering
behind Part is in the shoeing and part
is in mechanical appliances
A good deal can be done with the hair
Careful brushing and sunlight do much TO
give the hair a wholesome growth and
color Diet also affects the color of the
hair It has been noticed that people who
live in hilly regions where the drinking
water runs through limestone have .
tendency to be tall ana large boned. The
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legs and thighs, while the limestone
water supplies an excessive amount OF
material to the growth of the bones.
These conditions may be created as the
doctor thinks best by exercise and diet.
1t is becoming the custom of rich faith
ers to have one of these specialists look
after the bringing up OF their children in
the same way that they have nurses born in
! France or Germany TO teach the child
| French and German naturally and with
an easy accent. Agreements can be made
! with doctors VINO make the rearing of
children q speciality 10 look after a child
from its birth to the age of 6 or Z The
doctor comes before the private tutor,
who is regarded as necessary TO the men
| tai development of the child. The doctor
| looks after the physical DEVELOPMENT Of
the child until il is old enough 10 put in
the tutors charge and to play with other
children.
These doctors also undertake TO cure
hereditary tendencies to disease. a
scrofulous child may be taken in hand so
soon that the tendency may be almost
wholly eradicated Special attention
would be given to the digestion of a child
of dyspeptic parents, 10 the development
of the muscles of a child Of weak parents
BY care thus early applied the child of
short parents may be made to grow sew
eral inches taller than his parents, a
child of lean parents may be made plump,
and a tendency TO stoutness may be
largely overcome.
It will be a generation or two before
the general effect on the children OF the
rich will be manifest. Meantime IL
seems hardly fair to the poor that their
children should not have the same oppor-
tunity.
LEARNING TO TALK ENGLISH.
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