The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-31

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premature babies who outclassed
their fellow men include Napoleon,
Sir Isaac Newton, Rousseau, OAR
win, Voltaire and Victor Hugo) I.
Childbirth Is believed to cause dia-
betes In many women. because
there are fewer cases of diabetes
among unmarried women In
case you don't already know how
DictatorS regard babies-Mussolini's
newspaper, II Popolo d,Italia, recent
ly squawked out loud about Italy's
falling birthrate-the complaint be-
ing that the decrease in births had
already robbed II Duce Of Is army
divisions Who can remember
away back when girls got married
to have babies-not baby bonds?
American babies born in Febru-
airy stand almost twice as much
chance Of becoming famous as those
born In June There is said to
be q private clinic In New York
where women wishing to have test
tube babies are provided with
fathers. (The donors are mostly
college men, and the women don't
know the fathers" identify
More twins are born in ireland than
anywhere else In the world.
When twins are born, in many
Australian tribes, one of the children
Is killed, usually the smaller or
weaker one. (The natives also de-
stroy babies which are born weekly
or malformedD Colored women
have a smaller percentage Of sons
than white women :. Fewer twins
are born in Japan than anywhere
else in the world. Twins &C.
cur about once in every 80 births in
the U. 8. and Europe, but only once
In every 100 births in JAPAN :.
If babies grew as rapidly as bees,
a week-old baby would weigh four
tons. I'm case you careD
Babies don't get any fun out of
rattles until they're six months old.
At that age they also enjoy being
sung to For the first weeks
Of its life a baby can't actually see
anything. All 1t sees is light ami
darkness. (After two months 1t sees
objects and after three months it
begins to recognize its mothers face)
|. At three months a baby gets
its biggest kick out Of staring at
a single spot Until it is ten
months old, baby can't distinguish
between sounds or grasp words. $50
you're wasting your time trying to
talk to babyD
The birth-rate in the U. S. has
declined Is per cent in the last ten
years. (Around the year 1860 our
population will begin to show a
marked decrease) -. Most of the
newborn baby's weight is in Its
head and abdomen. Gust like lot
synonyms for baby. (But the one
we like best is "daddy's ditto'D . .
Other synonyms for baby are BARN.
seraph, kidlet, cradle songster, bas-
sinet-boy, first edition and dimpie
darling Among the Greeks and
Romans marriages were frequently
contracted for just a year. If at the
end of that time a baby was born
to the couple, the marriage was re-
newed for life.
Rameses II of Egypt still holds
the world record for having sired
the largest number of babies ever
known in one family. (He had 200
children) :. A baby will breathe
more easily and take more air into
its lungs If it sleeps without a pill
low under its. head The best
time for children to be born Is in
the late Winter or early Spring
One Of the outstanding spies
in history are Richebourg, known as
the baby spy. During the French
Revolution, Richebourg, who actually
was a midgst. carried military COM
munications through enemy lines.
disguised as a babe In arms
The most popular of the Dionne
Quintuplets is Yvonne. Psychologists
have nicknamed her 1.-THE Matri-
arch" According to a new
law passed in Mexico, all babies born
in Mexican airplanes are Mexican
citizens According to Nal o.
Hara, Mrs. Henry Gephart of Little
Bear Ridge, Idaho, gave birth to
uuintuplets-all boys and alive-on
December 6. 1893. (But all the pub
licity she got was tllree-inch item
in the county's weekly paperD
During the nine months before
birth the embryo baby goes through
all stages of evolution. 1t starts SIS
a single cell, develops the physical
characteristics Of a worm, then gets
gills like fish, and next grows an
animals fur all over its body and a
tail at the end Of its spine. Gin
ally, 1t turns into bombr's targeto