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Show Parents 'Matt-lied' to Babies At Evanston's Famous Cradle ; Celebration of child health day, May 1, "ntl bovs and girls' week, May 1 to 8, focuses attention at-tention on the Cradle, I famed institution at Eianston, III., xchere in 15 ears Mrs. H"i- Ham IS. Walrath has j cared for 3,000 unfor- tunttte babies. 1 f ?- Celebration of child I health day, May 1, and j ... ' I bovs and girls' week, . ' -V' , - ' : May 1 to 8, focuses at- ; tenlion on the Cradle, I i " famed institution at ""V- ' m.! Eianston, 111., where ; j in l- ye"r ,'r5- " j- . liam it. Walrath has t V" . " "V" rt:J cared for 3.000 unfor-t unfor-t j , ' t - - tunttte babies. f - J - - L - Picture u I ' - " IT -r:t ; - - Parade - " f . . v x f ,. 1 . :' ; . ' I ? - . 4 1 i w 4 I ' AN I , " - . i j .!, ,1m.,.. . " -1 Above, Mrs. Walrath, assisted by the chauffeur of a friend of the Cradle, brings a week-old girl from a maternity center to the home. Six thousand applications are on file, but they are filled with the greatest of care. Parents must meet social, personal per-sonal and economic requirements. Foster parents are told only that their child is normal, that the natural parents are free of disease, that babies are "matched" to adopting parents as to racial, national and religious background, and that in the Cradle the baby has had scientific care. Above, Mrs. Wul-rath's Wul-rath's daughter, Gretchen, rrtncics in detail with a Kenosha, W is., manufacturer and his wife, who have come to adopt a child, their original application applica-tion which, hotceve.r, ic as filed several months before. I ' 1 I , i - ' 4" F ' " " r i v." r ' I K , , 1-1' - - n . " - ,f f x' t- ...... - 5 . v Z"ex A nurse delivers the baby in the living room and the new father and mother, tears and smiles appearing ap-pearing together, take over. D p s id e the mother is Mrs. Walrath. Wal-rath. The infant now has parents, a six-year-old brother, and a home on Wisconsin's Wiscon-sin's Lake Michigan, ij future happiness quite well assured. Above, the adopting parents see their child, who greets them with lusty howls since she has just been awakened awak-ened from a sleep. But the crying soon subsided. Left, on the second floor of the Cradle's two buildings are special nurseries accommodating 25 to 35 babies. "AAi Adopting mothers may buy baby clothing at the Cradle. |