New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-07
BABY HEALTH CONTESTS
NEW MOVE IN EUGEN|CS
New York Mothers to Display
Infants and the Rewards
Will Go to luSty.
BEAUTY NOT TO COUNT
Height, Weight, Bone, Skin and
Muscle Will Win the Judges
at Public School
Exhibition.

With the opening of the child welfare
exhibition to-day in Public school lol in
East nth street. a new move in the in
tercst of cugcnics will take the form of
A babies health contest, back Of which
are organizations in the Babies Welfare
Association. The contest is said to be
the first of its Kind ever held In tins
city. and is intended to be the first of a
series to be held in different sections OF
the city.
Tie mother who can bring forward
baby that gives the best promise OF be-
coming healthy. useful. intelligent ciu-
7en will receive the first prize Curls,
pink cheeks and general endearlnS at
tributes of babyhoOd will not count III
the summing up
Things that will count. however. Will be
height. weight circumference of chest
and abdomen and quality of bone skin
and muscle. Ii is to be a health not a
beauty competition.
Mothers Sponsors for Rivalry
This contest is being conducted by The
Mothers Aid Society No. los LeNihe'
ION avenue. Of which Miss Harriet silver
man is director. Or. Godfrey Il. PiSek'
or Tho New York Milk Committee. has
volunteered 10 conduct the examination
The second contest OF the series VIII ne
conducted by the university settlement
m EIdriGge street. Those agencies OF '"e
Rabies Welfare Association located III
the neighborhood i'm each case nave
volunteered to interest the mothers anu
get the babies to tire exhibition. me
child Welfare Committee Is also CO.
operating.
There was lively scene at Pubic
school 1oj a week ago Saturday. when the
babies were brought in FOR q preliminary
scoring. The managers had thought they
would be lucky II twenty-five babies APP
peared. Great was their surprise there
fore. 10 find more than hundred
mothers with prospective prize citizens IN
their arms awaiting the arrival of the
examiner.
The following members Of the general
committee of the Babies Welfare Asso-
citation. whose organizations are DONG
useful work in that neishborhood' had
been actively at work for several days
getting the mothers interested.
Miss Mordaunt Wilson. Sunnyside Day
Nursery. Leo Arnstein. Mount Sinai Hos
initial. Mrs. G. r. Buxton. silver cross
Dav Nursery: Mrs. William Einsiein'
Emanuel sistcrhood Day Nursery; Miss
NJ Dc 9. Trenholm. Or. Michael Schu-
man Straus Laboratories. Miss Maria l."
Daniels New York Diet Kitchen Associa-
lion. and Dr. Reucl A. Benson. Babies
Diaries.
The following announcement has Oeeh
issued by the Mothers AID Society re-
sarding the contest:
BABIES HEALTH CONTEST.
Every year we raise better COWS. better
horses better trees. better flowers Why
not better babies?
DR.. Margaret Vaupd CLARK. of Iowa
is the originator of the babies health con-
test. The first contest was held 1T
state fair in Iowa and was planned to
induce the farmers to include I'm their cry
OF better cows. better horses. better pigs
that other cry. Better Babies
Babies entered for the contest showed
such signal physical defects i'm compari-
son with the blue ribbon animals That the
farmers were reused. The contests have
. become yearly feature In Iowa and the
general health Of the Ofh,ics has greatly
improved.