Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-21

air or with open windows. $50.
Was this child a strong, vigorous in
FAINT at BIRTH.
This Formally over, mothers pro-
ceeded as before to make their little
treasures look attractive. A dimple
violet eyes and long, curling lashes
were almost equal to a prize in hand
There was, much ironing Of dainty
fTocks and curling of silken hair. But
while this was going on among exhib-
itors the judges were going through
an entirely different sort of prepare
ton. These judges were physicians
on whom the superintendent and her
committee had impressed the idea that
looks were important only as indica-
lions of health. They were also sup
piled with a standard of babyhood or
baby health which read as follows:
Average weight, height, and circum-
ference of head and chest of boys is
given below. Girls average one pound
less, and are Of the same height
At Birth-Weight, tx pounds;
height, 201a inches; chest, 1871 inch
es; head, IA inches.
One Year-Weight, 81 pounds;
height, 29 inches; chest, is inches;
head, Is inches.
Two Years-weight, 261h pounds !;
height 321f inches; chest, 10 inches;
head, 10 inches.
Three Years-Weight, 81 pounds
( height, 35 inches; chest, 20 inches
head, 19A inches.
Central incisor teeth appear about
the seventh month; lateral incisOrs
from eighth to tenth month: anterior
molars, twelfth to eighteenth month
eye and stomach, fourteenth to TWEEN
tieth month; posterior molars, eigh
teenth TO thirty sixth month.
Multiply width OF head by 100 anc
divide by length TO get cephalic index
When index is rs to so, the child is
unacceptable; so to So cephalic heads
are preferable. Length measurement
sohuld be from occipital protuberance
to prominent part of brow.
The anterior fontanelle should mo-
w ONlcAhSs alhOlr C4tSAAlN coStu
1t should Ii completely closed between
the fifteenth and twentieth months.
The bony skeleton should be espe
cially examined for ricketts,.
The child should first attempt Il
sit up at about the sixteenth week, b,
fairly successful about the forfeit
week. and firmly seated at the end o
the tenth or eleventh month.
He should attempt to stand abou
the thirty-eighth week and be success
full at the eleventh or twelfth month
He should walk unsupported at tn
fourteenth or fifteenth month: Gel
tainly not later than the eighteenth
month. Frecocity in walking is not de
! sirable
The skin should be pink. flesh firm
lips red, breath sweet, tongue clear
Z He should breathe through the nos
only, and should not be fretful H
should not be restlessly active no
disinclined to play.
When the contest opened, the usua
half-hearted crowd followed the NOR
interested parties, the parents, o
more properly speaking the mothers
TO the scene of judgment But sons
thing was wrong. There was no a.
ray of smiling mothers and babies Ii.
tening to fulsome compliments. Their
were no fatherly judges patting bah
heads and chucking dimpled chins
There was no balloting for the prett
est and sweetest. Instead. thera wa
a stern, uncOmpromising judging {
babies on physical pOints-points ths
counted just as they did in horses
cattle and hogs.
The news spread to the live stoc
section. Men who were gloating owe
blue ribbons and cash prizes won b
their choice stock stopped talkin
crops, the breeding of cattle and pol
4 tics to find how the Iowa babies wer
coming out under the examination
4 medical authorities. Some of thes
men watched the proceedings curious
ly, some anxiously and some angril!
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