Middletown transcript., 1914-07-11
BABIES COMINGBACK
Display at Coming State Fair Pro-
misses to be on Big Scale
Non RECEIVING ATTENTION

VI a SOOu many yeas bopAe7 Ai~AFS
not been receiving the attention they
deserve. Persons have been reading
about pets like lap dogs, Angora cats
and trained monkeys. The public has
heard that women of fashion, who set
the pace for other women to follow,
have been going in for all sorts of re-
cords, golf, tennis, swimming, noun
tain climbing, bridge, etc. But nobody
has been talking much about making a
record in raising healthy babies.
Then suddenly people discovered that
neglecting babies was bad thing for
a nation Social workers began to or
ganize Mother clubs III the congested
districts of the cities for the purpose
of interesting mothers in the proper
care of their babies. Then came along
Mrs. John Hayes Hammond, one of the
eountry's organized social leaders, with
society for the better education and
training of rich children. In the sub
urbs of richest New York a little
woman started school of mothercraft.
What was the result? Mother and baby
came back into, style, and now every
body is talking about letter babies.
The Woman's Home Companion,
magazine which reaches all classes of
mothers, was the first to recognize the
Importance of making babies fashion
able. It organized the Better Babies
Bureau, whose object was to spread
the Better Babies contest idea all over
the country. The publishers recog-
nized that the best way to preach this
beautiful gospel was through the state
and county fair at which city and county
mothers meet. Last year there were
! Better Babies contest at 300 state and
lnty fairs. One hundred thousand
pies were Examined, and are better
les. to-day because their mothers
rned some thing of the Better Babies
at these contests. This year it is
bected that 200, 600 babies will be ex-
ined under> much better condition
4 by physicians who have gained
through the past years experience a
better idea of the contest and its OBJ
ject.
A Better Babies contest will be held
in connection with the Delaware State
Fair at Wawaset Park, in Wilmington,
on September 8, 9, 10 and IL.
Why not be in style and enter your
baby in this contest? The fair offers
the following prizes to fine healthy ba-
bies, who will be judged by the Better
Babies Standard Score Card for physi-
cal and mental development
Division boy, Il months to "a
months Of age.
Division 2-Boy, 25 months to Sc
months of age.
Division 3-Girl, 12 months to "a
months of age.
Division 4-Girl, 25 months to S6
months of age.
Bronze medal in each division for
highest scores.
W0MAN's H.COMPANIoN CONTRIBUTES
Our Better Babies medal, in gold val
ued at $25, to the highest scoring baby,
boysor girl, city or rural, to be known
as State champion.
Four Better Babies medal in bronze,
to be awared to the highest scoring boy
and the highest scoring girl in divisions
l, 2, 3, 4, except then one of these
babies is the state champion and wins
the gold metal. In this case the bronze
medal will go to the child making the
second highest score.
Better Babies diplomas to all first
prize winners in all divisions.
A Better Babies certificate of exam
>ination, beautifully printed in colors,
to each and every baby exaninedin the
contest by the Better Babies Standard
Score Card.
Better Babies diplomas to first prize
winners in all classes, and to each child
examined in the contest abeautiful GER
tificate of examination showing the re-
cord made by the child, and enrolling
it permanently in the nationwide
ranks Of better babies
In addition to the satisfaction of
having your baby tested, you will re-
ceive literature and information of in
terest to you as a parent. There will
be Better Babies Health Exhibit with
charts, posters, bulletins and informal
talks on the care of the child which
will make the Better Babies contest
one of the real and vital features of
your fair this year.
If you are interested in allbabies and
in your baby in particular, write to the
superintendent of the contest, or to S.
H. Wilson, Jr., secretary, for further
information.
The rules Of the contest are as fol-
lows:
Contest open to all babies Of Della
ware between 12 months and 86 months.
All entries close on August /. II 4
Entry blanks mailed on request.
Appointments for examination will
be madein the order in which applica-
tons are received.
Notice Of date and hour of appoint
ment for examinations will be mailed
in ample time before the fair opens.
All questions on blanks submitted to
parents must be a1s@cTed.
No child suffering from any acute, or
constitutional, or contagious disease
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