The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-16
Bronx Babies to Be Examined TO-Day
In Contest for Euening World Prizes


Contagious Diseases
viii Be Allowed to
Compete.
To-day tho FIRST group Of babies on
tered in the first better baby contest
held in tho Bronx will receive their
preliminary examination In competi-
ton for the money prizes offered By
The Evening World. Tho examination
will take place between SIS and s
o'clock this afternoon. At Public
school No. so. Ono Hundred and
Forty.nrs street and Brook avenue.
Bronx. Other examinations will be
held every afternoon this week. I'M
less the registry list Of babies 70 IN
ishsd on sooner.
During the first two days o. the
preliminary examination. to-day
and Tomorrow, methsrs In the
csnssst district who have not 81.
ready entered their babiss b.
tween the apss Of three menths
end three yssrs are urged 70
bring them 70 Public School No. q
20 for registration. No baby esn
b entered after 8 o'clock 70.
morrow Afternoon.
, Already ITS youngsters Are on the
registry list. They were brought In
last week. Bat Miss Henrietta
Schwarts Of the Bronx Settlement
House and the other social workers
In charge Of the contest are DO anx-
ious that all mothers and babies may
benent by II that they have pur-
posely extended the registration per-
Tod two days beyond the time origi-
nally allotted to II.
SCORE CARD EXPLAINED WITH
THE AID OF A eAeV.
Forty mothers have been asked to
bring their little ones this afternoon
for an examination by the corps Of
doctors under DR.. Phebe Van Worst.
Last Friday afternoon DR.. Roger Dem
nett met these doctors. and. with
the help Of q baby. explained to them
the exact meaning Of tho score card
used. Dr.. bennett himself examined
the baby - an object lesson to tho
others. They will. therefore. DO able
10 do skiiful and expeditions work
this afternoon.
The kindergarten room and several
Of the rooms devoted to special
olaases on the second door Of Public
School No. - will b used for the
examination. Many volunteer work.
ere from Bronx House. school teach.
ere and other women interested In
social welfare viii serve ~ assistants
b the physicians. Miss Mary Arnold
q the Babies Welfare Association
viii b present.
OlckLV DAOIgs RECEIVE ePg.
ciAL INVITATIONS.
Since the largest prisss are to be
given for improvement In the condi-
ton Of the babies between this OK
animation and the nnal one In May,
mothers with anaemio or sickly
tables are earnestly invited to regis.
tsr them In the two days left fol
registration.
Ovt No baby suffering from any
contagious disease should b
brought 70 Public School No. -
either Ter registration o. sxaml.
NatlsN. The bsby with wheepine
cough, measles Or some similar
ailsMsAt should b kept q heHps,
for HE own saks and tes ~ saks
n sthsv ehlidrse.WN *
"P,sass make u DlAlA," said Mis-
Schwartz, ''that whom I say I wan
mothers to enter babies who are mo-
we'll I mean bahtas who do not seen
70 thrive. who ere unhealthy withou
their mothers knowing sxacly VIVA
- IN NATAL. -, ....... ..s.,...,,..a
Il don't thiIk there are many suol
babies In the Bronx" she added. smil
Ing. IL may Judge BY the littl'
ones already entered. I should %!
that the prevailing type Of Bron,
baby 10 round and plump and red
checked and decidedly healthy In ap
psaranoe."
The babies who are healthy 70 b.
Gin with stand . good chance to VII
prises. although those offered 10
1mprovemsnt" are . bit larger. Tn
contestants fall into three classes 40
cording 70 their aSe-from tire
months to nine months. from min
months 70 eighteen months. fror
eighteen months to three years. T
the baby In each class showing tn
greatest Improvement The Evenin
World Offers . prise Of 80. Tn
hsalthisst baby In each class WI
receive . prise OF ~.
The mother Of each baby examine