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gjfggg 1 L IL UUWWWlWPPIHP of the lie of her real mother at least that is what the court said, for courts rear -a great legal wall "between mother and child yhen they are thus separated. But the mother knew different ly. Alma still lived to, her", vivid ly, in tearful memories and daily heart hunger. She struggled on, and finally the wheel of life-shifted. Love came to her. She met and married anotfierman, a good man, a prosperous civil engineer on the Panama canal. Even tfign;. with love and a prosperous home happiness for her was jio;t .complete. She long ed for fhe -baby girl hers no longer legally, -' JftitTstill her own flesh and blood, ;a very part of herself. Sliecame back to Chi cago seeking Alma. For months she could learn nothing. The great legal barrier was in the way, you see. Finally mother love and detectives to gether traced Alma. The home into which she had been adopted was no longer prosperous." Alma needed her mother again, just as she had needed the foster mother, years before. The wheel of life had swung completely around, and in raising the real mother if had cast down-the fortunes of the foster mother. w But the foster mother loved Alma,.too. She wouldn't give her up. They arranged that Alma should go to an academy ,' where b.oth .might see her occasionally and correspond with her. Still the mother-love ' was not satisfied. ' Mother, wanted again,. for her, .very pwn, the" baby she had first cuddled close and warmf against her breast. And the fos-J ter mother's love helped, too, in that final realization of the desire: The dramatic climax of thisj story from real life came whem both pothers appeared In courts together and the judge-gave Al-1 ma back again, legally, to her own mother as the latter placed five new $100 bills in the hands of the foster mother. Otherwise she- couldn't have her. The mother walked out of the court room with her arm about 'her daughter. ' ' . The foster mother went more' slowly, with hot, regretful tears blistering the'paper money in her 'hands, her pay for twelve years' of love and watchful care. "It's awful to think of arndthen actually having to buy back her own daughter, like a slave, in a"' court oMaw, isn't"it?;T asks Henry-' Neil. . T Who is NeU He's' the man' who has made it practically im-"-possible for such a scene to hap pen again in Illinois. It is nowr impossible in 'Illinois because,' since that $500 purchase a few months ago, a mother's pension law has gone into effect here. Neil was the father of that law. The Jaw provides that the chil dren of a destitute but worthy mother shall not be taken from her. Instead, the judge awards.' her a modest-little monthly pen-t ' sjon, say $7. or $8 a child, what- 'ever i$ needed, to enable her. toj Support those children at home, in addition to what'she is able toj earn herself.- It saves thfe homer