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Show A Biby Portia. It took a baby girl, less than 8 years old, to end five years of feud and litigation over her own little telf. Little Dorothy Johns is the girl who took the reins in her own hands and gained for herself a title of "The Child Portia of Chicago." . When Dorothy was born her parents were in very poor circumstances, and it was decided that an aunt and uncle take care of her. She was legally adopted by thera. After four years, when Dorothy's brothers and sisters were dead, and the circumstances of the family fam-ily had been bettered, Mr. and Mrs. Johns asked the return of their baby girl. The aunt and uncle refused. re-fused. There were fist fights between the two men, end- ing in. sensational police court cases. There were appeals to higher courts, and finally one Judge decided de-cided in favor of he parents because the aunt and uncle had not taken out guardianship papers. But the feud went on. And the two families drew their friends into the trouble, until the neighborhood neigh-borhood was estranged. The little girl knew that something was wrong, r.nd asked her parents the cause of the trouble. They told her. She pondered long and deeply in her childish child-ish way, and at last arrived at the decision that settled set-tled effectively the five years' trouble. She will spend half of her time with her adopted parents and half with her mother and father. Litttle Dorothy, unknown to herself in the eight short years of her life, has found the way out of trouble which has taken the nations of the world twenty centuries to decide. She compromised. |