THREE MOTHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 14

THREE MOTHERS

PUZZLE FOR YOUNG GIRL A girl of 22 named Mariska Xraau: finds herself in a perplexing situs tion, says the Budapest correspondent of the London “Observer.” Tvc years ago she lost her mother, wte on her death-bed disclosed that she and her deceased husband were not her real parents, and had adopted te from the White Cross League whet she was some months old. and tte her mother had been an unmarried woman of the same name, Tere Kramaz, born in Felsoputnak. After the death of her adopted mother, who she had loved as a pa ? ent, Mariska advertised for ber ret mother in a Budapest newspaper After a lapse of time she received i letter from the Hungarian in San Paolo, Brazil, which informed her that Terez Kramaz, born in Felsoputnak, was alive and in comfortibk circumstances, having emigrated tc Brazil after placing her fatherlesi child with the White Cross Leagnt An exchange of data followed, whiefe proved satisfactory except for a indecision about the date of tb mother’s birth, and Mariska receivec the sum of 200 dollars to pay her far? to Brazil. For a few months the mother asdaughter lived together, and then Mrs Kramaz died, leaving her fortune t Mariska. The girl decided to retan to Hungary as soon as the will *** proved, and the third act of the drain* commenced with a letter from a sol citor in Ungvar (now under Czecrule) stating that a client of his, Tere* Ramaz, born in Felsoputnak, claineto be the mother of Mariska, an c could prove that she had P* 4o6 *;; illegitimate child at the White League over 20 years before, thoogi she had since become reunited to u* man who had been its father. The problem of whether Mariska i-* the daughter of the rich the poor mother remains to be lega* l ' solved, but before the question t-. her inheritance is resolved otnTerez Kramazes, born in Felsoputa may come forward to claim the chlthey deserted over 20 years ago.