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WHERE IS AMERICA'S PERFECf BABY?,
Baby Helen Burrow, Minnesota's 99
Per Cent Youngster.
Since the people who manage, state
and .county fairs discovered that
babies are a more important product
than pigs and cattle, there' has been
a "widespread search for the "perfect
American baby."
And of the several millions of
babies considered perfect by then
do ting mothers, the learned experts
have just picked out the two most
perfect little girls' in America.
The- one coming nearest to perfec
tion is Helen Burrow, daughter of
Mr. and' Mrs. E. Burrow,' who live on
a farm near St. Paul, Minn. Exam
ining her "physically, point by point,
just as they would a prize animal at
a stock show, and then aking into
account, too, her brains, beauty, and
disposition, the judges at the Minne
sota state fair gave Helen 99 points
out of a possible 100. ,
And that's the highest score yet
Helen is two years and ten months
old. She is a little, short of theoreti
ccl perfection., in height and -chest
circumference; .but perfect in eyes,
ears, nose, condition of bones,, gait
and posture, mental condition and
general disposition. She .weighs 36
pounds and 4 ounces. Her height is
38 inches.
At the Ohio state fair little brown
eyed, golden-haired LoujseSherman
Culp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Culp of Columbus.'was. picked out, as
the best of the 480 fine. babies exhib
ited, scoring 98 points, the second
highest mark yet recorded'in Amer-,
ica for a girl baby.
Louise is.15 months old and has
never been sick a day. She -weighed
7 pounds at birth, and now weighs
22 pounds.
Both of these babies were breast
fed. Helen Burrow has grown up
mostly out of doors, "like a, flower,"
her mother says She plays nearly
all the time in the yard and garden,
and sleeps on the" porch In summer.
She eats the fresh, -wholesome farm
food and her'mother says she simply
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Louise Skerman Culp, Ohio's Nearesl
Perfect Baby. .'
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