AN INTEENATIONAL BABY SHOW.
It seems that there is really to be a live baby show in Paris, and that it is to be "international." The infants are to be of the ages of one to five, and there is to be a first prize of a thousand francs, a second of five hundred, " inferior ones " of a hundred francs, and gold and silver medals. The objects of the exhibition are, of course, " humanitarian and scientific." Healthiness combined with faeauty is to be the ideal according to which the prizes will be adjudged. The doctors who have to do with the direction of the , public charities at the Hotel de Ville, says the Daily News Paris correspondent, have been moved by the reports sent in to them of the " decimation of the infant class through the ignorance of nurses and mothers." France is sadly in want of a renovated population, and her wives and mothers are to be stimulated into fresh and wiser care by the lively competition of baby foreigners ; and in order that " working-class mothers of remarkably fine babies " may be able to enter the lists with their offspring, it is supposed that foreign Governments will be asked to aid them. England will doubtless be expected to do her bounteous part in this touching work.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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217AN INTEENATIONAL BABY SHOW. Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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