The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE HEALTH BULLETIX. 101GETTING THE CORRECT HEIGHT.Height and Weight Should Conform With Age.They Must Not be Flat or Pigeonbreasted.score the horses and cattle. The baby"sage will be noted, then he will beweighed, measured, and carefully examined,and, above all things else, thesedoctors will point out to the mothersand fathers just what goes to makea perfect baby. They will show whythe baby scores high here and low there,and just how to remedy any defects.Then, best of all, there will be theprizes. Of course, the prize for thebest baby will not be so large this yearas it will be for the best horse or cowor hog. One could scarcely expect thatthe first year ; but next year, whenNorth Carolinians begin to appreciatethat a third or fourth prize baby isworth more than the best race-horse onthe track, the adjustment of prizes willbe different. This year the Woman'sHome Companion offered $100. providedthe State Fair Associationwould raise$50. It took quite a bit of work toraise this $150 iu order to secure the$100, but the State Board of Healthdid not stop there. It went on, and isstill collecting funds for prizes, and beforethe contest is held it hopes to havea considerably larger fund for tliispurpose.JUDGING THE BABIES.Lots of interest centers around justhow the babies will be judged or scored.Space will not permit us to explain thewhole matter in detail, but the generalplan will be as followsThe contest will be held October20th to 25th. at the State Fair Groundsat Raleigh, in the east wing of FloralHall. At the appointed day and hourthe mother will bring the baby to thelarge, comfortable reception room,where a reception committee of ladiesinterested in the babies and their motherswill meet the babies, learn the name,age. and sex of each one. and fill out$100, and provided further that thewomen's clubs of the State would raise Surveying Osier's "Mason and OlxonLine."