| Show 0 f I I I II I I l f J I t r i J i 0 nt i tt Y Hj our fi ui a fi l i irK fJ rK er w fJ 1 v w t I f d b q I II i ii d I i I J I II ar 37 2 l 1 4 r rv v t 4 1 la laP P Taking the fingerprints ofa of a mother in a 11 New York hospital to serve as aa an additional o I safeguard against again her getting some lome one else's else we baby THEN HEN a little pink and W white whito I WHEN creature swathed in nondescript I cloths and blankets is shown to the young oung mother in the Maternity ward wardI at the hospital her first emotion is joy ana ani delight Then a second emotion I II overcomes her and she questions the nurse nurse frantically Is Is Oo to really mine Are you sure you haven't mixed my baby up with some one else's The nurse reassures her pointing to the small metal tag that has been hung around the baby's neck as a method of ot identification The baby's name is writ writ- writt t n 1 I th In nf birth birth and the mothers mother's s name e But But the mother is still doubtful She s i of ot the many cases she has hns heard H of of where the mother instead instead of ot get get- getling getting get ing ting ling her own o child gets the one that was born in m the tho room next to hers i All newborn babies look so EO much alike ahke thinks the young mother in her doubt as she fondles the one ono that has been been placed In her arms Some have a little littlemore more hair bair than the others andI and I some have Oe brown eyes instead of blue but they all have tiny puckered red red faces j and squirming pink little bodies Suppose this child was not hers but that of the eyed dark-eyed woman across the hall who looks as if it she might have havethe havethe havethe the blood of an nn alien race in her veins I I Or suppose it belonged to tho the woman in the next room whose husband is a drunkard a It might even be the child of a thief horrible thought that the child le ate B is la nursing will mil some day follow in i its real mothers mother's footsteps and perhaps wind Up behind prison bars bare fills tills the young mothers mother's heart with anxious pain Is the baby the hospital nurse puts ii in i your your arms really your own Mrs Mary Marl MaryE i E Hamilton of the New York Police Department is undertaking to remove all further worry on this score from tho thi mothers of New v York State She is leading a movement to rave have the Legislature now in session at Alban Albany pass a law requiring an impression of ofa ofa oa a baby's footprint to be bo taken imme- imme immediately immediately after birth Since there is not noone i one chance in of ot the footprints of two babies being exactly alike such a i record removes all danger of infants get get- getting ting tang mixed up and a mc mothers mother's ther's gettIng the one wrong ope The footprint of ot a baby is its its signa signa- signature signature ture says J Josep Joseph osep Faurot Deputy Police i Commissioner of New York and one o of I 1 the worlds world's 1 orld's greatest ting fingerprint experts As Mr Faurot says a footprint pos pos- lesses almost as many Individualities es that make it different from every other I footprint as do the tho the tipi markings on tips of ot our fingers The lines that show on o the sole aole of the foot are arc ineradicable i and except as regards size they show no change from birth to death But in the case of ot babies footprints Mr Faurot says there is a d different lerent method of handling than in the case ot of t fingerprints Classification of the foot foot- footprints prints of ot infants is not BO so technical A As may be seen een from the photographs the tho thoI I pillar ridges are not pronounced go so dIf dIf- dIfferentiation dif di I toI i merely comes down to toa a question of comparison comparison- comparison comparison-comparison comparison comparison ot of the creases The large too toe of ot a person is the main mat identification tag It is ie similar to the ie thumb on the hand The lines here are permanent The Impressions when ox- ox exI examined e I i show that the ridges appear in I certain fixed patterns from which an al- al alphabet alphabet or a system of notation haa i been arrived at for convenience of i I record t I am v s r t 4 N I S rS F R Rr w r r Proposed Law t fake Nurses t t S S Sv SM F v M fie Take he Foot Foots t- t tp Y tL y F w s r f 5 f g gf bv f All AllA prints p r A Yap p x I y Newly Born r u to infants S I s 1 J r S A AS I IL Therell There'll a 1 I r L A B Be e No r I r rr g 7 t tp p wa k 1 Doubt n 4 0 i s i F Fk k Abut Just Z j ru Je a r j l qt 4 Which Is r L N r dh Yours e a mow F ilir E t sq a a an n T q d dr dm dr r m r 2 M L ill q t tr 1 P Pe Pk e k 9 v J Ji i k af h y L r N nh y 1 f eC f tv d r The footprint of ofa a r 3 x baby and the finger finger- x r C x raw a b am f m t 7 of its mother as recorded in a New y ar r rt L f ara tf York hospital I av avy sea t ff ea a t Y r y 0 J a w 4 a aJ aa aw SY JI w u uy y y yr r rt pg it ita a sr n t w A I i L ids AI ion Y Y MJ J A tF Fa lathy 1 y wi wit y t t A Lc t Laa h to tx ro rt Fy Fye e t n d F 0 a ar r 9 f A b iw r M r rr A x a e S r y r max A Aa t tM D win wine winS w S S 5 I Ay j tit s I of Th The appeal to King Kins Solomon to decide the ownership ownership ofa of a baby as pictured in the painting by Frank As the result of ot much experimenting a fourfold scheme of classification has been evolved and the various types em- em employed em employed are styled arches arches loops whorls and composites These in turn are subdivided into seven classes and all allare allare al l are perfectly distinguishable by an ex ex- ex expert expert pert who can describe each by its particular par par- particular symbol in the code arranged so s that the tho whole print can Ian be read as a dIs- dIs dIstinct distinct and separate e ei To mike make mi ke a permanent record of baby's baby foot the sole is pressed with fairly strong pressure on a sensitized card It l IS again agam pressed lightly without any wig wig- wiggling wiggling gling or twisting of the toes on another card or paper A brush is then dipped into a tub ot of black compound The nurse takes this brush and rubs it gently over the tho spot where the foot impression was made made Witha With a winding motion this compound compound it rubbed in and add add slowly the footprint of the child appears To preserve this impression a liquid d which acts like shellac is used Holding Holdin the nozzle of an atomizer containing this thi s mixture about a foot away from the print the impress impression on is sprayed until it i shows fairly damp or wet The Tho footprint of ot the child chUd is taken rather than its fingerprints as is done with criminals because a newborn chIlds chIld's s 's fingers curl up so as to make fingerprint fingerprint- fingerprinting ing mg difficult The Tho New York Nursery and Child Childs Child's Hospital has III already ready begun k keeping track of babies born there by means ot of t footprints Up to date dale over of ot the impressions have been made d differing fering from one another as widely gas jas as the fin fin fin- fingerprints n- n that the police keep These footprints have been loaned to Mrs Hamilton who will Ill n ll explain them to the legislative committee which will ill pass on the proposed law making the tl of every baby compulsory Not only are the babies footprints re- re recorded re corded at tit this New York hospital but bul buton buton on the same chart the mothers mother's finger finger- fingerprints prints are also taken This serves as a double check on the baby's identity and would seem to make It impossible forthe for foi forthe the child to be exchanged for another without the mistakes being quickly dis discovered covered and as there is a footprint record of ot every baby the error can be easIly corrected Of all the many tragedies that have resulted from mixing up a pair of babies liable the most peculiar one was that which occurred recently in a Jersey City hos- hos hospital hospital hospital pital A mother Mrs Edward dward Rich remained re- re remained remained in a hysterical state for two months refusing to look at the baby girl the hospital said belonged to her She Shi declared that she had given birth to a aboy aboy boy and was wal heartbroken to think that this son of ot hers had been given to some som other mother Every conceivable conc conceivable method known to science was tried tri d dt t to to prove the maternity of ot pretty little Edwina EdI na as the that baby nobody wanted was wal called When final final- finally finally ly her identity could not jie be e established and Mrs Rich continued to refuse to ac- ac accept accept her she was placed in an orphan asylum The doctor who attended Mrs Rich swore when the case was wag brought to t i court that the child he brought into the world was a Ii girl Mrs Rich vehemently denied this All this difficulty would woul have been avoided if tho the hospital where her baby was born had had hada a system ot of every newborn child But as it was the tags taliS may accident accident- accidentally ally aUy have ben been b en mixed by the nurses and Mrs Rich may have been correct in her conviction that she gave birth to a a boy bo If so what mother in the hospital was cheated into accepting a boy when st she i e- e H fRT give birth to a girl girl No one knows for tor no other mother complained at the time The well known story ot of Solomon and his wisdom in deciding which of ot the two mothers mothers had rightful claim to a certain child of ot courset course t comes to everyone's every ones one's mind Solomons Solomon's mining Solomons Solomon's method of ot determining deter- deter mining the parentage of ot a achild achild achild child would have been unnecessary if the tho system s stem of ot babies had bad been in m vogue then I IThe The Tha story is told us in the third chap chap- chapter chapter ter of the first Book of ot Kings as fol- fol follows follows lows Then came there two women unto the king and stood before him And the one woman said 0 my lordI lord I and this woman dwell in ono house and I was delivered of ot a child with her herin herin hein in the house And it came to pass the third da day after that I was delivered that thIs s woman was delivered also and an and we were together there was no stranger l aith aithus us In n the house bouse save we two in the house And this womans woman's child died in the th night because she overlaid it it And she arose at midnight and too took my son from beside me ma while thine hand hand- handmaid maid slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom And when I rose in the morning to a give myc my c child Ild suck behold it was dead but when I considered it in the morn morn- morning morning morning ing behold it was w s not my son lSon whIch I Idid Idid did bear And the other woman said Nay but t the living is my son and the dead is thy thyson th y son And this said No but the dead is thy son and the living Jiving is is my son eon Thus they before the king ling Then said laid the king Tho The one This is my son Bon that and thy son sonis sonis so n Is the tho dead and the tha other Nay but thy son lSon is the dead and nad my son is i ithe the living And the king ing said Bring me a sword swore word And they brought brought a sword before the th e king 4 s s x k A Name Q e o zw Dat ji i c l fir iv vf r 44 1 A ft z 1 V f f XA CZ tl at jc j c o c cu f r u 4 s And the king said Divide the living livin child in two and give half halt to the on one and half halt to the other Then the woman whose the liv- liv living h hing ing child was unto the king for her he r bowels yearned upon her son and she eho said sald 0 my lord give her the living livin child and in no wise slay it it But the theother theother other said Let Lct it be neither mine no nor thine but divide it Then the king answered and said Give her the living child and in no wise slay it she is the mother thereof That was the way Solomon solved the problem The new method of ot preserving the identity of ot babies is to lako ako ako their footprints The old ribbon colored meth- meth method method od od of ot identifying newborn babies and am marking them to prevent returned re- re returned turned to the wrong mothers is know known to be highly inefficient Many expectant t mothers who go to the hospitals are wor wor- worried ned ried about the uncertainty that this thi method necessarily Involves and ask to for permission to keep then their the t babies with i them The new method of will do away avay with all of this worry an and anxiety It has recently been suggested that a great many useful purposes would be served it if there thera were a law requIring every citizen to have a record of his or 01 her fingerprints taken on reaching a i certain age These Thesa records filed tiled by b states and counties towns and cities in ina ina ir a great national index that would re- re require quire a huge buge building budding to house could supply the government with an infallible guide to the identity of every member of o the nations nation's population But if ii there were a law requiring thes the th s a G v EIt e u t It lUMO D f Recording the footprints ofa of a baby in a New York hospital hospital the newest scientific method of pro pro- pro pre preventing venting a mothers mother's getting I Ithe the wrong child 1 1 footprints of ot every e ery baby to be taken at birth it is probable that this would l do away with the necessity for fingerprint fingerprint- fingerprinting ing mg Most authorities think that the footprint almost as trust trust- trustworthy trustworthy trustworthy worthy a clew to a persons person's identity as his fingerprints The police of Copenhagen the tha chief chiet cIty of Denmark have hate perfected a re- re remarkable remarkable re remarkable system for identifying crimi criminals cram nals by means of their fi fingerprints and other physical characteristics They have hate already recorded in this thi way vay the descriptions of more than 1800 InternatIonal criminals including many of the most dangerous crooks now prey prey- preying ing mg on the public publico Most of these are persons who look so gentlemanly and ladylike that even een the thc shrewdest observer ob- ob observer ob observer server of human nature would never sus- sus suspect su sus suspect their real mode of life By means of an ingenious code which the Danish police ha have hae e devised it is lS pos pos- possIble pos possible sible Bible to condense the description of anyone any anyone anyone one of these criminals into a telegram letters and of ot twenty or twenty-five twenty figures which supply all the information necessary fOE foa tor the positive identification ot of tho the man or woman wanted Anyone Any one who has ever visited a hos- hos hospital hospital pital where there are many young babies bable knows how easy it is for two of them to get mixed up Such mistakes are al- al alaways always always ways possible so long as the old Sash system of ot marking the children by fastening on the tha children metal or celluloid numbered disks or tags is fol- fol followed fol followed lowed No matter how careful the nurses may maybe maybe be there is lS always the chance that someday someday some day the tag numbered 33 be put on the baby who should have No 27 And whEn such sucha such a mistake occurs with aith two babies of ot the same se set it may never be beI detected I This is one great reason why many women hesitate to become patients in m a large maternity hospital where here many new babies are arriving every day But if there were a law requiring requITIng the footprints of all babies to be taken talen as asIs asis is now proposed in New York a mother would have no cause causa for worry on this I score The footprint records would enable en- en enable able any possible ups mix-ups of the babies j to be quickly discovered and corrected before any name has |
