| Show I After 40 Years Son Finds Mother Old and Feeble In Old Folks Home Happy Again at Home of Her Boy By T ROT ROY J GIBBONS lEA iEA Sen Writer ht 1927 NEA Service Sen Inc March Over T 7 Over the CHICAGO C hili hill to the th old folks folk homo home In Inthe inthe the valley near Wis vis went Mrs Mr Sarah Saah Hoisington She Sh had fought the good food tight fight Now with the th white hair of her 83 years ears tucked under a D poke bonnet and arid the memories of un- un Unavailing un availing toll and motherhood strung out Into the th past she bowed her head In resIgnation as asIf asIC asit If IC to II a a fate tate They took her In and gave ave her heran heran heran an old folk folks home homes home's comforts Her lIer hands bands were marled gnarled with service for ethers ether There Ther was a wistful look In her dimming eyes ayes eye Those Thos at the th home knew As tor for Mrs Mr Hoisington she thought of tho the husband who had bad left leU her 40 years before to wander aWAY never more to be heard from She Bh thought of the two children with Ith whom she had Jad mAde her home and who ho now were dead But most of all she h thought of Willie her the th boy whom her hor husband had bad taken him ILl almost most halt half a century before Was he dead too She wondered TIlE Willie Hoisington had fared far Ills father tather had taken him away and then the father had disappeared Willie had grown crown up He H had JAd moved about from city to city remembering bering little of the th past Ho lIe had married and moved to Chicago The Th post past a II mystery had Jad always fascinated him Where was waa his mother There came two daughters an anthen then a II son These grew up TIP They The were Willies Willie's children The Th past the ho lost Jost legend of Willie boy boy- boyhood hood mystified his hi own children lust just as it did him One On of Willie daughters mar mar- maried married ried and Jad two grandchildren came the maternal urge purred spurred on the mother nother Dad she he said sald one da day you say lay Wisconsin is the th state flat you to- to remember re remember member your father took you ou tom Maybe your mother stayed behrnd It If she sir is living I want wanter her er to see sec her great grandchildren creat Lets Leta try to find her Many letters were sent out Finally one camo came In reply front from the he Wi Wis post post- postmaster master nester It said an old lady named had been received at atthe athe the he home homo county seven years ago She now was wa near death It added Willie went wont Immediately to A feeble feebie leebl old lady roused front from what everybody e Le- Le be believed was wa her death bed met him She didn't know him hint and he h could not lot remember her Ill tell you ou i ii story atory lory she ahe sh said Do Do you remember this And then hen she h told him of ot an Incident that hat had happened in early any boyhood Willie remembered lIe Ia supplied the tho th details My boy cried Mrs ton ton on Come mother said Willie You are coming home with me meMy My dy mother It If I 1 only had hart found you rou before WINS FIGHT FOR FOn LIFE Grandchildren and great grand erand children hildren greeted erected her on her ar- ar arrival arival ar arrival rival ival at Chicago she sh said laid It It is too good to bo be true When hen I found you ron were my son I was ready to tolie dlo lie right there ther In your arms I thought bought of the tho th years year that had passed I had given civen you up for lead deAd along alone with your our father tather Willie though 2 62 himself himself-a himself but manufacturer manufacturer but still stilla a L boy to his rediscovered mother smiled through the th tears tear In his yes Mother will you ou mAke mak me some rome of your coffee coHee he asked Doctors Doctor had bad given elven up MrS Mrs Mr Hole HoLs- Hols Ington to die Now Kow because of the be reunion with her h r Wullie u II Ie she he h has recovered Love Lov and happiness combined to 0 effect the th miracle of ot the restorAtion restoration tion of ot her health loves lovci my ray coffee God God lod bless bles everything she ahe h said nn at c l t 1 I i j t IhIL hIL fr 0 AFTER APTER A PTER the reunion mother pours a cup or of coffee for him in the Chicago home |
