Show YES THERE ARE FLATHEADS babies heads are bandaged in ad asia minor to produce the approved shape people who are markedly broad headed are more or less flattened at the back of the head some of the flattest beaded headed people 0 f the world are among the armenians and tha the tribesmen in the highlands of 0 asia minor and some of them practice the custom of bandaging the babies heads in order to get them the approved shape it is 1 just the opposite to in crete with the exception of the better ed ad people in the towns and in the village in the mountains all cretan mothers bind the heads of their chit dren when tiny to make them of a nice round form in tact fact when I 1 wag was pressing home my questions in order to make quite sure ot of the object the mothers had in view one ot of them told me that I 1 had a very bad head and that my bumps and ridges ought to for have been amoo smoothed thed away in my in fancy yet after a fairly exhaustive inquiry I 1 came to the conclusion that the bandage in crete Is never tight and lasts tor for so short a time that nothing Is effected C II 11 hawes in the wide world magazine |