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Show BABIES ARE LIKE MONKEYS Instinct to Imitate Other Leads Them to Swallow Queer Things. Some people mny not think their babies ba-bies are descended from monkeys, and I do not propose to argue that question. ques-tion. It Is not necessary to do so. All will agree with me that Imitation Is characteristic trait of the roonke and that a conspicuous trait of all children Is the tendency to Imitate their elders. That Is as far as we need go. When a mother, In chunglng her baby's clothes, holds one pin In her mouth and lays others down within the bubys reach, she Is unwittingly, but none the loss effectively, teaching that child to put safety pins In his moutlx. Naturally one outcome of this dangerous dan-gerous practice Is the swallowing of the pin or Its disappearance Into the bronchial tubes. Dr. Chevalier Jackson, Jack-son, In Hygela, osserts that the bron-choMcoplc bron-choMcoplc clinic In Philadelphia has nearly one hundred pins that have been removed from the lungs, throats or stomachs of babies. In addition to pins there are hundreds of other at th les. Including tucks, peanuts (sometimes (some-times from peanut candy which when the candy Is dissolved leaves the peanut pea-nut In the baby's moutn, whence It may be breathed Into the lungs), small toys, such us Jacks, whistles and. tiny animals, seeds, kernels, buttons, uieads, coins nnd hones or frugmente of bones, that Inevitably go Into baby's mouth If they once get Into his hands. Accidents from the breathing 1n of these small urtlrles nrc fur uiortr'.coin-inon uiortr'.coin-inon than people realize and areviintu-rally areviintu-rally highly dangerous. A bronchowco-plc bronchowco-plc clinic, of which there Is at least one In every large and many small cltlos, specializes In thn removal of foreign bodies from tlui lungs or tubes that lead to them. Put prevention Is Wjrth a great deal of cure do not lt the hiiby have such small articles to ; pi By with the death rate Is high. |