Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — LIVE BABY IN A THESIS [ARTICLE]

LIVE BABY IN A THESIS

Used by Two Girl Graduates of Normal School as Subject of Address.

Pittsburgh, Kan. —A baby girl, five months old, weighing ten pounds, and so handicapped physically that she could not crawl and even could not cry, furnished the subject for a graduation thesis for each' of two girl mtobers of the 1915 class at the State Manual Training Normal. Four months ago Miss Georgia Lee Howard of Parsons and Miss Hattie Farmer of Erie, looking for subjects from which to work out their thesis, found the baby in a home which could not afford to give her proper attention. The senior girls took the infant in charge and every day for four months she was a guest at the home economics department, the girls put “Lucy" on a diet, giving her lime water for the strengthening of the bones, sterilized water, fruit juice for the blood and a modified solution of milk. On commencement day “Lucy," nine months old, looked like an ordinary healthy baby and acted like one. The doctor says the girls saved the life of “Lucy.”