HEADS SHAPED TO ORDER german doctor explains causes cause of various formations Forma tlona at a recent convention ot of german naturalists natura lists and doctors doctors dr Wa leber of stuttgart in an instructive paper put forth a sensational theory to explain the formation of the shape 0 of f the head of infants he maintained that the head of a child could be molded artificially lie ile found by ex per lence that when allen a medium shaped head 1 I placed in ia a soft cushion the tha child turns on its ack or rests on the back of its head bead in order to trea free mouth nose and face in this macnei the head bead rests smoothly and a short head is den developed eloped rut but it if the medium shaped head bead of a child is placed on a hard un bader derrest rest like th hair mattress or rolled caipen the childs child s head turns adde as it cannot stand any more on its head than an egg tor for the muscle of the back la Is weakened therefore with con continued tinned resting on the side a long ions head bead la Is developed to prove his assertions the lecturer pie scented it a child whose bose mother and BS BIB ter are shot t headed the child at its birth had a choit head now after 18 months it Is long it if the child had been placed on its back according to other experiences its head would have been short shaped dr did not deny that the shape chape of the head was inherited hut but asserted that it could be greatly influenced by the way may the child rested