Show BABIES OF THE WORLD Vearly ThirtySeven Million of Them Appear Every Year I has been computed that between 30010 0 and 37000000 of babies are born into the world each year The rate of production produc-tion is therefore about seventy a minute or rather more than one for every beat of the cock With one a minute calculation every reader is familiar but it is not everyone every-one who stops to calculate what this means when it comes to a years supply And it will probably therefore startle a good many persons to find on the authority of a writer in the hospital that could the infants of a year ranged in a line in cradles cra-dles seven deep they would go round the globe We have the ingenious conclusion also that supposing the little ones to grow up and the sexes to be about equally divided di-vided we should have an army a hundred times as large as the forces of the British Empire with a wife in addition to every soldier The same writer looks at the matter in a still more picturesque like He imagines the babies being carried past a given point in their mothers charge one bone b-one and the procession being kept up continuously inuously night and day until the last comer in the twelvemonth has passed by A sufficiently liberal rate of speed is allowed owed but even with these babiesinarms going past twenty a minute the reviewing officer would only have seen a sixth part of the infantine host file onward by the time he had been a year at his post In other words the babe that had to be carried when the work began would be able to waddle onward itself when a mere fraction of its comrades had reached the saluting post md when the years supply of babies was tapering to a close there would be a rearguard rear-guard not of infants butof romping bo sand s-and girls They w < uld have passed in fact out of the maternal arms into the lands of the school teacher Every moment mo-ment of nearly seven years would be required re-quired to complete this grand parade of those little ones that in the course of a twelvemonth begin to play their parts in the first age of man |