The Washington times., 1931-03-17
BELIEVE 1T OR NOT" THIS TINY CREATURE WAS ONCE
LIVING CHILD OF NORMAL SIZE

Each day. under the title Believe It Not Mr. Ripley
publishes pictures like the above that interest and
wonder.
This picture of mummified and compressed" Indian
baby of Bolivia reprinted by permission Of the New York
American
The tiny mummy born in Bolivia of the Latin repub-
lies south of u.s. the child Of Indian Indians
for centuries have had COMPRISING human heads
which they do with marvellous SKILL reducing the head to the
size of billiard ball. retaining all Of the hair which hangs
down sometimes yard more keeping the features almost
as they were in life
This done by removing part Of the bone from the skull
Jaw and slowly COMPRISING the tissues which are pre-
served with some mummifying substance.
In this case of the mummed Bolivian child the strange
process of condenng or comprising was applied 10 ne
At the time of its death this child of normal ze Now
scarcely longer than the thumb of the normal hand on
which it stands.
It is the property as Mr.. Ripley tells you, of E. D.
LeCheminant, Of Salt Lake City.
It against the law to compress the heads Of adult
Indians bodies of children in Bolivia and other places
What was probably connected with re-
gon mysterious idea of eternal e has degeneraed nto
commercasm It suspected that in some cases,
living human beings sent to their long last rest
when it easy corpse for the comprising
purpose
This picture of human being reduced few inches in
length interesting thought How would the world
look to us if WE small that and living?
Could survive century after century human nengS
were inches instead of from sixty to seventysx inches
height? ,,a 70
The answer to the question is that EVERYTHING Is
POSSIBLE The could crawl into the eye OF this
mumified child has civilization and history OF us oWn aS
remarkable in some ways as that of human beings.
Development of machinery would enable men to rule the
earth carry industry it, in few centuries they should
be reduced to inches height Some day mans hardest
work will be to press electric button very smah man
do that.
While however, the "homunculus" midget man, would
doubtless be able all of the worlds machinery
and rule the animal kingdom he does now his life would
certainly be unhappy.
would rise above the ground high enough to see
the grass He would the horizon and would be
OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE EARTH ON WHICH He
LIVES.
And PROPORTION everything. Make the most beautiful
earth fifty feet high and she no longer beautiful
only impressive.
Kind Providence adapts bodies to the earth that
inab Doubtless the gigantic planets that float around
the stars million times big there beings
big proportion Very likely smaller planets like Mars
much older than the earh there may be little creatures far
below us in size and far above us in intellect.
Many seeing this poor little Indian baby its bones removed
or shortened size paheticay reduced will ask
selves ''What became of that tiny creatures spirit?
What will happen the Day Of Judgment and of Resur-
recton when we all from the grave for trial?
Will this child be restored to its normal size by putting
hack the bones that removed perhaps centuries
and undoing the cruel process of compression?
An interesting question: but it would be pleasing to
believe that little Bolivian Indian baby in Heaven
now and has been very happy ever since it died.