The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-15
BABY SHOW OF ALL NATIONS
At Worlds Fair Nearly Every Va
riety Can he Seen and Studied.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
St. Louis Mo-, July SO.-The most
extensive baby show on record is the
one at the Worlds Fair. Here every
variety of baby may be seen, from
the fragile, puny creature whose faint
life spark has to be eoaxed into fame
by the aid of an incubator to the
Eskimo infant that would not be
tolerated among the living for
day If it showed at birth any indica-
ton OF weakness. 57r
In the living exhibit of the anthropo-
logical department, which clusters
about the model Indian school, the
children constitute the most interest
ing part Of the display. In some in
stances they, like their elders, show
the marks Of civilization, but for the
most part they are primitive babies,
clad in next to nothing and carried on
their mothers backs. They rarely cry,
never have collie and few among them
ever had bath.
The lesson the American mother
might learn from this display of saw
age children is that their own little
ones are the victims of too much
care. The Sioux baby when it is born
Is wrapped in a fit of cloth and laced
up in its queer little cradle composed
Of padded board with a buckskin
cover:
When it has outgrown its stretcher
bed 1t is carried on the squaw's back,
held in place by voluminous blanket.
The Ute Indians treat their pappoose
with more consideration, giving it a
bed that has a ducks downy breast
for a pillow and another to keep its
feet warm. The cradle is not rigid
board, but is pilable and trimmed with
buckskin fringe and gay colored beads.
A al fb, To 10.
stition that an American silver coin
attached to the pappoose's crib is a
harbinger Of good luck.
one of the most interesting babies at
the Worlds Fair is the infant Ainu,
whose home is a roomy hut composed
of mating. This tiny girl is a valua-
Bile subject for study to those who are
fond Of tracing man to his far begin
ming. Her parents belong to the abo-
riginal tribe of Japan, the only stock
in the island not contaminated by for
eign blood. The baby. when she is
grown, Will have a mustache tatooed
on her upper lip, as her mother has;
but now she resembles the quaint jap
anese dolls American children use TO
play with. Her dress is a diminutive
slip, covered by slip Of kimona, Of fine
elm fibre. Her shoes are little boards
with blocks under the heel and toe
and they are held In place by means
Of leather straps. How she ever learns
to walk in them without breaking her
neck is a mystery to those of us who
have watched a baby's first efforts at
unaided locomotion. Her cradle is a
hammock, composed of two poles to
which a strap of mating is tackled,
and It is suspended near the room.
A little way from the mating house
OF the Anus Is a hut covered with
skins. 1t is composed of two rooms.
and dts inhabitants are Of the giant
size that occupies the southern ex-
tremity of South America. The baby
in this family is scarcely years old,
and she shares her fathers aversion
to the gaze Of the curious crowd that
clusters about the door. In many re-
spects the Patagonian baby differs
from the other American pappoOses.
II has no stretcher bed and never
utilizes It's mother as beast Of bur-
den. As soon as Il is old enough TO
use It's limbs It is taught TO ride a
horse, for IN Patagonia only the poor
est OF the poor ever walk.
In the Navajo section Of the Model
Indian schol, where the squaws sic on