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Show YES, THERE ARE FLATHEADS Babies' Heads Are Bandaged In Asia Minor to Produce the Approved Ap-proved Shape. People who are markedly broad-headed broad-headed are more or less flattened at the back of the head. Some of the flattest headed people of the world are among the Armenians and the tribesmen In the highlands of Asia Minor and some of them practice the custom of bandaging the babies' heads In order to get them the approved shape. It Is Just the opposite In Crete. With the exception of the better educated ed-ucated people In the towns and In the vllluge In the mountains all Cretan mothers bind the heads of their children chil-dren when tiny to make them of a nice round form. In fact, when I was pressing home my questions In order to mako quite sum of the object the mothers hail In view one of them told me that I had a "very bad head," and that my bumps and ridges ought to have been smoothed away In my Infancy. In-fancy. Yet, after a fairly exhaustive Inquiry, 1 came to the conclusion that the handHge In Crete Is never tight, and IhhIs for so short a time that nothing Is effected. C. H. Hawes. In the Wide World Magazine. |