SCIENTIFIC BABY SHOW.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13869, 27 November 1913, Page 2

SCIENTIFIC BABY SHOW.

Ap interesting feature of the Panama. Pacific Exposition is to.bo an attempt to find and to-.honour with a prize of £5000 "the best baby. in. the world." .In- other words, there is to be <i baby show of a kind never before held, for every entry will bo champion infant selected by severely modern tests from every State'and counti-y that has the courage to present an aspirant for fame and wealth so hard to win.

As this is to be a rivalry based only oji points recognised by science, with sentiment and favour entirely banished, the show Mill be entirely unlike other ba by show s r where eugenic ideas, seem not yet to have taken nracK hold, and such inconsequential things as fancy costumes'and decorated baby carriages count in the awarding of the palms.' For reasons presumably related to the difficulties and dangers of travel, the contestants are to 'be considerably older than in the scientific baby shows hitherto held in America. Indeed, some of them will not be babies at all, for the age limits are between 3 and 5 years. It is expected that there will bo nearly 1000 entries, and every country, with the exception of the Far East, will be represented.