A Big Baby Show.

Evening Star, Issue 6842, 4 March 1886, Page 3

A Big Baby Show.

It is decided to have a baby show iu Paris which must exist into tho shade every exhibition of tho kind that has ever been held. The future exhibition of infants is to he an universal one, aau.l will Lo hold eitiiov at tilo Palais do ITndustrio or the Htitcl de Yille, under tho management of MM. Frcbault and Key, who arc deputies and also doctors; of a municipal committee, including a large proportion of medical men ; and of a .sub-committee, made up of naturalists and artists. Among the latter will he M. Iknj .min Constant Dubois, the painter of “The Foundling,” and other men of his profession who have shown line feeling for healthy childish beauty. Artists whose children derive value from tho silks and velvets and laces and muslins in which they are dressed will not bo asked to belong to this sub-committee. The ages of the “exhibits” will range from one year to five years. The first prize will bo one ef a thousand francs, and the second of five hundred francs, and there will be inferior ones of a hundred francs each, fu*| gol d and silver medals. Foreign Governments will be asked to aid the working-class mothers of remarkably fine babies to compete for these prizes. Tho object of the exhibition is to bo humanitarian and scientific. There are many doctors at the Hotel do Villc who are charged with the direction of the public charities of Paris, and to whom reports have been frequently sent in by medical relief officers on the decimation of the infant class through the ignorance of muses and mothers. In making tho exhibition universal foreign systems of pucrculture (excuse the neologism) can be Studied, and scientists nllbnlcd a wide field for investigating tho influence of consanguineous marriages, tho hereditary principle, climate, and different methods of nursing. Each exhibitor will have to till up a list of questions tending to throw light on these subjects, and will be asked to send in with the exhibit photographs of ancestors, or ancestral pictures, and of near relatives.