Arizona republican., 1914-08-20
BABIES JUDGED
JUST LIKE LIVE
STOCK At FAIR
First Purely Scientific Baby
Show Will Be That Of
Next Exposition The
Eugene Plan to Be Car
ried Out in All Details

With suffrage and the suffragettes,
there came upon the Arizona state
fair commission a demand that space
be given in the program to Arizona
chief product-the Arizona baby.
The Arizona Mothers congress de-
clared it was a shame that such lib
eral premiums should be given for
calves and colts and pigs and lambs
land even little chickens, and nothing
for the Arizona baby
The commission declared that it
would either do it right or do moth
ing at all, and so decided to do it
right
This year the department of babies
holds the first place in the premium
list, and it is not devoted simply to
starched, dainty little lace affair
with the judges trying to pick the
prettiest one, which nobody on earth
| could do, but this is to be Il real,
genuine. scientific baby show down.
The babies are to be judged ac-
cordng to the score card plan One
! thousand points for the perfect baby,
every defect Skilled doctors and
trained nurses will be in attendance.
The babies will be undressed,
weighed. measured, tested in every
way and from every point and angle
! that the standard of perfection and
the score-card demand
| Ruffles. ribbons and laces will be
at a discount and count for nothing.
II will have to be real baby and
looks. or it will lose under this sci
entific, up-to-date livestock plan.
| The babies will be classed and
scored just like livestock. and judged
strictly from a livestock standard
that has been agreed upon by the
| baby scientists of the world.
! Medals, diplomas and beautiful ro-
settle ribbons will be the prizes. Com
plimentary tickets will be given tc
each mother and her child the day
the little one is examined and scored
| Judging babies between the ages OF
| s and l. months old will be on Mon
day. the first day Of the fair; those
between the age of 13 months and p
months wifi be judged on Tuesday;
and children from the age of - tC
SO months will be judged on We'd
nesday; awards will be made on Sat
urday. the last day of the fair.
Mrs ]. c. Norton, president of Thu
Mothers Congress of the State o
Arizona. has agreed to act as super
intendent of this department, anC
the Mothers Congress of the STATE
of Arizona takes charge Of this de
partment to see that it is conducted
laccording to the latest up-to-d dat
standards and along purely scientific
lines
With the craze for eugenics, anr
the fad for scientific babies, ther'
will come some day. no doubt, so
cial register made up of men an'
women who stood the test as babies
and maintained the standard a
adults. and have had themselves en-
lrolled under the standard of perfec
ltion.
| In the cattle department, calf i
mot permitted to he shown unless
certificate of registration of its an
cestors is on file with the superin
tendent of that department.
In baby contests of the not distan
future, no doubt the same restric
tons will be made to apply, but a
the present baby contest, which i
the first to he held along purely sci
entific lines in the state of Arizona
there are no requirements exCep
that the baby should be of the prop
er age.