Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1917 — MOTHER’S LOVE STAYS DEATH [ARTICLE]

MOTHER’S LOVE STAYS DEATH

Woman With Incurable Malady Refuses to Die Until She Sees Son. Saratoga, N. Y.—One of the most remarkable cases of mother love known to this section is attracting attention at the Saratoga hospital. Physicians and nurses, Inured to pitiful scenes, are touched by the case of a woman who, they declare, “refuses to die” until she has seen her son once more. Mrs. Z. Shanks arrived at the hospital a short time ago suffering from an Incurable malady. Premonition of her condition came early to Mrs. Shanks and with it a desire to see her son, “Willie,” who left home five years ago. Prayers and cries for her missing child’s return arouse the hospital staff day and night. The boy traces his ancestry to the British, and there is a belief that he may have enlisted in the allied forces. Medical authorities are astounded that Mrs. Shanks has not succumbed to the fatal malady. They can explain it only by saying that her mother love has made her will triumph temporarily over her ills.