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Show ' Texas Mother Is Made Happy by Reunion With Soldier Son I NKW YOKK, .Inly 20. Mrs. William Wil-liam Hammond, of Gorman, Texas, mother "of eleven children, chil-dren, summoned by telegraph to the bedside of lier critically ill soldier Hon, liuel li. Hammond. Tl years old, arrived at St. -Mary's hospital in Ho-boken Ho-boken today. She mortaed two hordes and a '-ow to raise the money to f.'et here, and said she was paying 10 per cent intTO-t on the loan, "which Ituel will help pav off when he tfets well." Warned of the hi'h cost of living in New York, Mrs. Hammond brought with her a lar'c ba: of home-made Texas bread, which, she hoped, would last until her return to Gorman. Nurses anil friends at the hospital raised a fund to .supply the impoverished but : jD happy mother with slices, a hat ami a j jr I new dress, and when Mie was ushered . i into the fdk ward to sfe her boy, he smiled wanly and, after embracing and jjj kissing the white-haired woman, re- J marked : i W-di. mom. they can put you in ' fine city clothes, but they can't lake ' the Texas walk, out of -our feet.'' i t I j- Young Hammond, who is the ehlest ' ! of the family, and a younger brother , .-j volunteered for service at the outbreak f of the war. He saw active servb-e in ! f ; Fran ce, and his brother, a sailor, is a member of the crew of the army trans- jC port Powiiatan. " Mrs. Hammond said she had written I to Secretary Daniels asking that he be f honorably discharged "now that the ' $ armistice had been signed, so that he j can help us run the farm. 7 ' g |