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-
! hibitiCn and contest MANAGEMENT TO
register baby to start Though the
examinations and measurements at
| the rate of one every five minutes, is
/ working out better than was expected
] The woI6 has been so systematized
that 80 more japanese and Chinese
| children were registered at the en-
trance and permitted to take the ex-
aminatiens than were scheduled for
yesterday afternoon. Nearly 20 were
day of the Week" ..r.. T.. .
One of the earliest youngsters 10
make the rounds was the child OF Pay
master r. E. Corceran, u. S. a., pay
master of the U. s. S. Alert and sub
marine division stationed at Pearl
harbor. The happy father took day
off to accompany his wife and baby
! during the test. At the close of eX-
aminations the paymaster refused to
go home until the scorers, Drs, w. G.
Weirick and f. G.. Mighton, had to-
tailed up his child's score. My baby
got SO per cent" proudly said the fonG
father, land If it we're three-quarters
of an inch taller, it would have got
even a better mark" ..:.... .
This is the characteristic feeling Of
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 scores to threaten
the two highest. Geraldine Bettan-
court of Luso street, who holds first
place with 9S5 per cent, and Agnes
Elizabeth Judd, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Laurence M Judd, who holds
second place with SO per cent, but
the Shepherd child is tied for third
place with Kathleen Margaret Mullins,
1256D Palm Drive, daughter of Thorn
as Henry Mullins, a marine engineer,
who scored 975 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 96.S.
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 Co
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
say that it is not fair to be toe severe
in the matter of position of the eyes,
as they vary So So you mothers or
.shaole" babies, you have nothing to
distress you if some of theserOrlental
babies seem to make as good or near
" as good marks as your Own!
Wednesday, two abnormal cases,
were discovered Immediate ynHp pom ar.
rival OF the parents, one WITH bronchi-
al trouble and the second with tonsllF
It's. Neither of these babies was al
lowed to proceed with the tests, and
both we're sent. home Immediately, The
MANAGEMENT wants to make 1t clearly
understood that there is absolutely no
danger to well babies, as there is pos
itively no contact possible with ba-
bies who are afflicted With disease.
ANY such are Intercepted before the
examinations begin, as were the two
cases yesterday. 1t is a tribute to ef-
ficiency and the need of such a baby
show that neither parent was aEare
of it's child's ailment. This was true
of the four defects unearthed in Mon
days work.
Because of the publicity given to the
examinations, many peoples 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 it necessary
to close the examinations to the pub
|lic. As it lis, 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
tons. = II. Il.
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
$50, and at 4.30 last evening it 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
day there have been several from ka-
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