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Northwestern University Evanston...
Last week in Evanston, Ill., a dark Semitic-looking man and his beauteous brown-haired wife hastened out of a little red-brick cottage behind a nurse carrying a basket. In the basket was a baby. The foursome climbed into a cab, were whisked to Chicago's County Court. There Al Jolson, famed publicizer of motherhood, and Wife Ruby Keeler, who for two years had wanted a child, formally adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back...
...dozen years ago that five Chicago tycoons sat down in an Evanston living room to listen to an energetic, bright-eyed little woman expound an idea. Mrs. William Bradley Walrath was talking from experience. Few years before, a relative who had lost a child at birth asked her to find another to take its place. When Mrs. Walrath did so-in a Chicago maternity hospital-other people, for one reason or another childless, commenced asking her to do likewise. When she had placed 90 babies for adoption, she was confronted with a discovery that has never ceased to cause...
Thus the start, in 1923, of Evanston's Cradle, now most famed institution of its kind in the U. S. The town's best specialists agreed to serve gratis. Maternity institutions agreed to advise when unmarried mothers, unable or unwilling to shoulder responsibility of rearing their children, were giving them...
That Cradle babies are well babies is not a matter of chance. In 1927 a nationwide epidemic of summer dysentery pushed the Cradle death rate up to over 12%. Twenty-seven infants died. Desperate, Mrs. Walrath was ready to quit. But she had reckoned without a great & famed Evanston friend...