Show SON FINDS MOTHER AFTER FTER FORTY YEARS YEARS' SEPARATION f Y n 4 S t l I f 4 g i rg j l s J 1 i A ji fl jit d i s t q R ky y mo loka n v AFTER THE REUNION mother pours a cup of coffee for him in the Chicago home By ROY J J. J GIBBONS Copyright 1927 NEA Sel Inc CHICAGO March 17 Over the hill hili to the old folks folks' home In the valley vaHey neat near Blanchardville Wis went Mrs Sarah Hoisington She h had d fought the good light fight Now Xo with the white hair of her 8 83 years tears tucked under a poke bonnet bonnet bon bon- net and the memories of un unavailing vall- vall Ing toil and nd motherhood strung out Into the past sh she bowed her herh h head ad in Ii resignation as H to a tate fate They took her In hd gave her heran heran an old folks folks' homes home's comforts Her hands w were re gnarled with service for tor others other Th There re was it a wistful look In her dimming eyes Those Thos at the home knew little about her because she told them nothing Life had tossed h her r up She was somebody's mother But wh whose s n ho one knew I As for Mrs t n she thought of the who had left lert her forty years before to towander wander away never more to be heard tram from She thought ot of the two children with whom she had made her home and who now were dead But most of aU all 81 e thought ot of Willie her Wullie th he boy whom her husband had taken en with him almost halt half a century before Was Waa he dead too She wondered red THE WANDERER Meanwhile Willie Hoisington had fared tarM far Isis His father tather had t taken ken I him aw away and then the father had disappeared Willie had grown grO up He had moved from city to city ren remembering little ot of the past H had tn married and moved to Chicago The past a mystery had always him Where was his mother r There came two daughters and then a son These grew UP Th They y were Willies Willie's children The The past the lost legend of Willies Willie's bo boyhood boy boy- hood mystified his own children just as It ft did him One of Waltie's daughters mar mal tied and nd two grandchildren came Th The maternal urge spurred on onne ne he moth mother r. r Dad sh she saId one day you yousa I sa say Wisconsin Is th stAte you remember your our took you roth froth Maybe your mother stayed behind If f she Is living I want her t to see s e her great grandchildren L Lets Let's ts t's try to find her herMany h r. r Many letters were sent out Finally one came in reply from the Blanchardville Wis Postmaster Post Post- master It said an old ld lady n named m d Hoisington had been received at atthe atthe the county home seven years e rs ago She now was near death de It added Willie went immediately to Blanchardville A feeble old lady roused reused from what everybody beHaved believed be- be Haved was her deathbed met him She didn't know him and he could not remember her Ill tell you n a story she said Do you ou remember this Ana then she told him of t an Incident that had happened In eArly arly b boyhood hood Willie remembered lie He supplied the details My I boy cried Mrs Irs ton Come moth mother r said Willie Y You u are coming home wIth me My mother If I had had only found You before WINS FIGHT FOR LIFE Grandchildren and grand great children greeted her on her arrival at Chicago Wullie she said said- it is too good to tc be true W I found yoU were my son r. r was ready to die right there thereIn In your arms I thought ot of the years that lad had passed I had given en you OU up for forde de dead d along with your father Willie though 52 52 a himself prosperous r but still stilla a boy to his rediscovered vered mother Smiled through the tears In his hiseY eY eyes L Mother rother wIll you make me some ot of your coffee coHee he asked Doctors had given up Mrs Irs Hoisington Hoi Hoi- to die Now b because ause of the r reunion with her Wullie she has recover recovered d. d Love and happiness combined to effect the miracle ot of the tho restoration restoration restora- restora tion of 01 her health I Willie loves my coffee God bless bles she Ra said l |