Word: walrath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...there are a great many of the latter. What Mrs. Walrath wanted of the five assembled men was $5,000 with which she could make the cash payment on a $15,500 house she had in mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...
...afford to do so send yearly donations. A knitting school, a cafeteria for 75? lunches, a layette shop are popular socialite centres for eating and shopping for baby clothes. When news of The Cradle reached Hollywood, where most would-be mothers find little time for childbearing, Mrs. Walrath got her share of the business. Some applicants she turned down flat. But, usually reticent about names of her patrons, Mrs. Walrath is proud to admit that from The Cradle to Hollywood have gone Gracie Allen's Sandra Jean, Joe E. Brown's youngest child, Mary Elizabeth...
Like all other foster parents of Cradle babies, the Jolsons last week could rest assured that their son had normal expectancy to live. Mrs. Walrath permits no child to be adopted unless it is healthy and normal. Congenitally-diseased babies, babies with syphilitic tendencies, are sent to institutions soon as the customary Cradle stay-usually about five weeks- has elapsed. All parents are given the record of the real mother, and whatever information concerning the father the mother will supply. Mrs. Walrath has had great luck in wangling the truth out of them. She tries to match the children with...
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...