FOOTPRINTS OF
CHILDREN TO
IDENTIFY THEM
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—A system of taking foot
prints of children has been adopted in
the New York Nursery and Child’s
^Hospital, to prevent infants born
there from going to the wrong moth
ers. Its adoption was due to the fact
that a soldier’s wife who recently gave
birth to a baby in that hospital at
first denied that the child was hers.
QThe young mother, who had been read
ing stories of accidental substitution
of children at hospitals and similar
public institutions, declined to nurse
the baby.
“We brought all the proofs we
could muster,’ ’explained the superin
tendent, “but the mother persisted in
her hallucination. She became hys
terical with grief and fright. Finally
I brought her our records, which
showed that only a little colored baby
and her own had been born in the
hospital that day. That convinced
her. But just think of what would
have happened to that poor woman
if other white babies had been born
here on the same day!"
In order to avoid g similar experi
ence the superintendent engaged a
finger-print expert to instruct the
head nurse in trying the system on
the babies. “We found we couldn’t
get good prints of their hands,” said
<he official. “Their feet, howevejr,
came out beautifully, and for greater
security the mother is finger-printed
also.”
Very young babies, it was said, may
look just alike, but their feet are
Quite dissimilar. One child, the su
perintendent declared, will have a per
fectly-formed miniature pedal extrem
ity, another’s will print mostly vague
criss-cross lines, and still another will
look like “an egg and five toothpicks.”
Under the present system, which
has been in operation nearly six
months, the child’s foot is inked and
stamped on the hospital cart of the
mother. Although he may not resem
ble anyone in the family, and though
no one can tell where he got his nose
'or his eyes, or the color of his hair,
a comparison of the footprint taken
at birth, it was said, will tell whose
child he is from among the hundreds
of infants in this New York institu
tion.
TOUGH EXPERIENCE
OF JUDGE BUNNELL ON
BROAD PASS TRAIL
Somewhere out on the Broad Pass
trail, which is called broad because
it is so narrow and because the nego
tiation of it causes a man to resort
to such blasphemy as insures his soul
'traveling down the broad way which
leadeth to destruction and sorrow be
yond the grave, an earnest, industrious
federal judge is plodding his weary
way from one roadhouse to another,
striving only to reach that roadhouse
that he may get right away from
there and to and by the next road
house, where roadhouses are only
worse than “siwashing it” on a trail,
and the name of that judge is Bunnell.
The chances are that Judge Bun
nell will reach town this week, al
though he may be behind schedule
time, which would bring him here Fri
day next. And he will return a sad
der and wiser man. And if any more
judges want to be spelled in the near
future they will have to hunt another
boy. Enough Is a-plenty.—Fairbanks
News-Miner..
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