Show HEB HER MOTHER LOVE SUPREME 1 1 MJ 1 t 9 a aged woman womans pathetic defense of 0 worthless son a miracle of 0 loyal affection Affect fon joe had violently quarreled with vo woman the proprietor of the house la in which hie his disreputable reputable die alfe lived because she the withheld from him a part of hie his earnings 1 and in the alter cation catlon had killed her ber a sItu nUon one would say which it would be difficult for even ft a mother to condone but not at all her thin gray face worked with emot emotion fon her trembling hand hands restlessly pulled nt at her shabby skirt wa a the handa hands of tho the dang pluck at mhd th sheets but cho she put nil all the vitality ehe she M could masur into hie his defense she told us be he had legally married the girl who supported him although lily uly had been so long in that life that few raca men would havi dono done it of conrao euch such a it girl must have a protector or everybody would leece fleece her poor uly said 14 to the day of her death that he wa was the kindest man ehe she ever knew and treated he iho ilia whitest that the she her relt celt was to blame for tho murder because filio she told on the oad miser and joe was as so hot headed ehe site might have known that he would araw raw a gun for herr her the gasping mother conclude concluded he ile was always aha that handsome and had such a any one winter when I 1 was la in an office building id never get home much i before twelve but joe would open tho doo for me J it as pleasant as if it lie been a it bound sound sleep she al wax was eo so triumphantly unconscious of 0 the incongruity of a sturdy son la in bed I 1 while tille his mother earned hia his food that her auditor auditors said sold never a mord ord and in lia silence we saw a hero evolved our eyes a defender of the oppressed tho the best beloved of hia his mother molier who was losing his high spirits nod and eating hl his heart out behind prison bare bars Us could well defy the world evett there surrounded as he wa was by that bl hie affection which aich assures both tha fortunate and unfortunate adlle thai that we are loved not according to our desor tn but in response to some pro r founder law lawe jano jane addamo Ad daro in the atlantic |