The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-09-17
AIM OF BETTER
BABIES CONTESTS

I
Do you know how to bring up b.
by2 Are you sure that he Is as big,
and strong aud healthy as nature In
tended him TO beY You can easily
hnd out whether your methud Is
rightly bringing your little one to
the Better Babies Contest 10 be held
at Salmon on October I, under the
auspices Of the County Fair Associa-
tlon.
Better Babies Contests are not
merely for the big fine babies. The
standards used are for the average
children and 1t 10 fine opportunity
for mothers to learn Of the little I'm
perfections in their children and the
mistakes they are making In the care
OF them. After u Better Babies Con-
test In New Jersey last year, ore un-
happy mother wrote the authorities
in charge; II am so disappointed. !
thought surely my baby was perfect;
, he is SO cute, but he only scored SS
per cent. The doctor told me what
was the matter. 80 ! do hope you will
have another contest next year be-
cause | am going to try and make
1 him perfect between now and then. I"
:, At the next contest this same moth.
= or was ovsrjoyed to find her baby
scoring 90 per cent. So II your baby
!. seems puny or not quite as big and
4 fine as your neighbor's, come to the
y contests and find cut why.
= Registration blanks may be secured
: from Mrs. f. w. Bellamy, secretary
Salmon. FIJI one out and send 1t Z
!. Mrs. Bellamy so that your baby MAJ
NJ be properly entered.
,s A beautifully designed bronze u cd
- al aud diplomas, presented by th'
= Woman's Home Companion, will b
"A Ri ven the prize winning babies, be
sides the cash prizes offered by IN
IA Fair Association.
- The Better Babies Moveme 1t whicl
- is sweeping the country has game
-. great impetus through these coz
~ tests. They have been held at
number OF state fairs and innnmei
!. able county fairs State, county an
- local health departments have foun
- them OF inestimable value In teact
80 ing mothers how to care for bADie
- No state In the Union Is no" VIII
~ ont its Better Babies Contests and
-, many places they are being held eac
IA year. They teach mothers how
-. feed the baby, how to care Tor u
ewes aud teeth and stomach-how
'@s sI discover his DEFICIENCIES and CORE
i' them-bow to dress him, exerci
eo him and give him fair chance
ne the world,
nd II any man thinks Better BAD
nat Contest is a foolish fad, a nonsense
air thing to amuse mothers, let him
.o. IN the contests and become educate
his Perhaps, II his little boy scores i
ar. on acconnt of adnoids or poor .!
.ot. sight. uLder weight, low intelligent
nm. he will suddenly grow serious ana
a
,ext gin to think. And then, no doupt
to he thinks, he will wonder whet'
,,on his own sye-sight would not ha
act been better, whether he would
ou nave a soupder constitution In OIL
vi,h words. II he would not nave bSeu
,o,p "BetteT'' man-if his own mot
ono had known what constituted Il
are ter Baby and had had an opport
,est ity to have him examined at BEL
are Babies Contest. When he leaves
, ~ contest It will be with the convict
that sound knowledge is needed e
v,cs more than love to pilot . baby sa
tbs through infancy and early chiidh'
'EsIv Iti great movement, tins u
nors ING Better Babies, because ultini
.,u,l ly it will mean better men and I"
an and q better nation.