Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-04-11
BETTER !. THEN ] NJ 4 | NOV N
ING Picture SHOW
Examination Of Babies Under Aus.
pieces Of Federated Women's
Clubs.
from Saturdays Daily.)

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picture show ever given in Webster
City is the free examination of ba-I
bies which has been going on all day
at the Baptist church under the aus.
pieces of the women's federated clubs
of the city.
DR.. Scott of Des Moines, and Dr..
Velura Powell of Red Oak, arrived in
the city last night and are today con-
Quoting the physical and mental ex-
aminations and measurements, as
sisted by DR.. Homan, eye and ear
specialist, and local dentists in, max
ing thorough examinations of the
babies.
The meeting is entirely informal in
every respect; sometimes four babies
are crying at once and some time one
is talking, one>is Laughing, and only
two are crying! The event of today
which closes the week of Better Ba--
bies for Webster City, might well be
termed a beauty exhibit, for there
are flesh and blood angels, RaphaePs
cherubim and the most adorable Gu
pids that ever decorated a valentine.
The mental tests are conducted at
one end of the rostrum by DR.. Powell
who is juding the babies upon atten-
ton, facial expression irritability,
disposition, etc. Here they reach for
colored balls and build with blocks,
play with paper and pencil, obey
simple commando, initiate move
ments, recognize self in mirror, etc.
From this test they are taken to
side room and disrobed from whence
they issue CARRIED in natures cover
ing to the physical examining table.
DR.. Scott has the faculty of winning
the. babies confidence, and talking
gently to them all the while as she
makes the measurements, weighs
them and observes the lines and
curves of the figure. Here the lungs
are tested, the heart examined, the
phssiognomy OF the child, the feet.
knees, limbs, etc. One test which
most Of the babes object seriously to
taking is the measurement for
height. This simple test necessitates
their lying lengthwise upon fiat
surface in the same manner, that the
foot is measured at the shoe store.
nxs.4 20 +l1o 1;ttIa opc,c non COO M no.
cessity for such performace, even
+, when their mother stands by, and
the rafters ring sometimes with the
show of disapproval. ,-@.i
Twelve babes were completely, ex-
amined this forenoon and several
mental tests given. The score cards
will all be- sent later to the mothers
when the final averages are made. \.
Several of the babes this morning
scored almost perfect in their mark
ings, having absolutely nothing the
matter with them, The day will
prove the most beneficial of any in
the week to mothers, for II there are
any defects discovered, they may be
remedied before any grave harm has
resulted to the child, Mothers on
every side today have beer heard
saying, "If they had only had this
examination when my children were
young!' But this has come with the
march of progress. II will soon be
more important in Iowa to register
babies at birth than blooded hogs
and calves, state OF affairs which
is exactly the reverse now.
The most important thing in the
world-the baby--is having just now
the best of care wherever the light
of knowledge has penetrated, and
the best of professional attention.
This is important for the generations
to come and brings to mind the CEN
turtles old saying OF Virgil,
"Thus NE, not for ourselves, bear
fleeces, flocks!
Thus we, not for ourselves, make
honey, bees!"
Last Dance Of Glass.
The Misses Jeanne and Virginia