Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-27
Tiny Human Exhibits Center of
Interest: Booths and Charts
Are of Much Value


The plan OF the Better Babies ex-
! hibitlOn and contest management 10
register a baby TO start through the
examinations and measurements at
! the rate of one every five minutes, is
working ont better than was expected
The Wor1 has been 50 systematiZed
that 30 more japanese and Chinese
/ children were registered al the 81
/ trance and permitted to take the eA-
aminatiCns than were scheduled t0?
Yesterday afternoon. Nearly 20 wer"
examined in all Wednesday. the third
Fday of the Week.
/ One OF the earliest youngsters 10
/ make the rounds was the child Of Pay
master r E CorcoTan L. s. ~, pay
master Of the t. s. S. Alert and sub
marine division stationed at Pearl
! harbOr The happy father took a day
| off to accompany his wife and baby
during the test At the close of pX-
aminations the paymaster refused 10
| 90 home until the scorers, Drs. ". =.
| Weirick and F. C. Mighton, had to-
| tailed up his child's score. My baby
| got SO per cent" proudly said the fonG
! father, and il it were three-Quarters
of an inch taller, it would have got
even a Better mark"
This is the characteristic feeling o.
| all the parents who bring their young
/ children TO be registered and entered
! in the contest.
There have been no other contest
ants in Tuesdays scOrashtO threaten
| the two highest, Geraldine Bettan-
! court OF LuSo street who holds FIRST
| place with 9S.5 per cent, and Agnes
| Elizabeth Judd, daughter Of Mr. and
! Mrs. Laurence NJ Judd, who holds
Second place with 9S per cent, but
| the Shepherd child is tied for third
place with Kathleen Margaret Mullins.
| l256D Palm Drive, daughter OF ThOm-
as Henry Mullins, a marine engineer.
who scored 97.5 per cent.
The second highest score Tuesday
was Master Henry Herman, son OF
Sergeant Albert Herman, Signal
| Corps, u. s. A., residing at 941 Birch
street, who attained score Of 96S.
In the scoring of Oriental babies
extreme difficulty is experienced IN
many of the tests. In the mental tests
| Miss Agnes Collins, head nurse at the
| Queens hospital, who has charge OF
| these mental tests based on the Coz
! lumbia University psychology tests,
assisted by two of the young nurses
who received their caps Tuesday even
| ing. states that with those Of the ORR
entail babies who do not speak or I'M
derstand English, the mothers WORD
has to be taken for one or two points.
In the matter of eyes. too, physicians
saw that il is not fair to be too severe
| in the matter of position of the eyes,
as they vary so. So you mothers OF
| "haole' babies, you have nothing to
distress you if some OF these Orlental
babies seem to make as gooAJor near
| " as good marks as your OWN!
| Wednesday, two abnormal cases
were discovered Immediately upon ar
rival of the parents, one with bronchl-
al trouble and the second with tOnsili'
| It's. Neither of these babies, was al
lowed to proceed with the tests, and
/ both were sent home Immediately. The
management wants to make. 1t clearly
understood that there is absolutely no
danger 10 well babies, as there is pos
| itiyely no contact possible with pa
bies who are afflicted with disease.
| ANY such are intercepted before the
examinations begin, as were the TWO
cases Yesterday. It is tribute to et-
| ficiency and the need of such baby
show that neither parent was ar'are
| of its child's ailment. This was true
| of the four defects unearthed in Mon
days work. ..--...... -.
| Because of the publicity given to the
examinations, many people without
babies are so interested that they
want to be present during each after
| noon, but lack of space and courteous
| consideration due the parents OF the
| children combine to make 1t necessary
| to close the examinations to the pub
| lie. AS it is, the large number OF
| workers required and the babies and
their parents need so much space that
any mere lookers-on would really re-
tard the work of the different sec
lions.
Some parents have been rather
| wary of entering their babies for the
reason that they thought they had to
turn the babies over to some strange
| person and not be allowed to see them
until they were finished with what
ever strange things were done to the
babes. But this isn't the case. Moth
ers accompany their children to every
table and even assist in many ways.
The total attendance Tuesday was
/ 760, and at 1870 last evening 1t was
/ the same for the same hour on Tues.
day. At this rate it is expected that
! more than 5000 persons will attend the
/ exhibits during the week. Among the
classes of school girls who attend each
1 day there have been several from IA
/ waiahao seminary, and Wednesday 81
girls from the seventh grade of Kalihi-
! waena school attended in a body. 1t
seems as if every seventh and eighth
grade school girl in the city should at