Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-22
THE SUPREME PASSION
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

the "oFo0 Tl4neSt Fdio woman
Writer
-HE unWritten law OF man has not
only set free but justified the act
j OF thousands Of men who have
slain the men who robbed them Of
their wives.
Will the unwritten law Of woman,
which recognizes motherhood as the
supreme passion Of a woman's soul,
save the woman who killed the man
who was trying to rob her Of her
child?
On the answer to that question de-
ponds the fate Of Mrs. Blanca D'Saul-
les, who shot her divorced husband
q few days ago in his home at Hemp
stead, L. J., when he refused to give
her little boy back to her, even for
the time the court had allotted the
child to her.
Never was there q more pitiful
story with o grimmer ending than
that which lies behind this tragedy
in high life. Mrs. D'Ssulles, who is
only 20 now, IL q beautiful woman
who belongs to an aristocratic and
wealthy Chilean family. Jack D'Saul-
les, handsome and fascinating young
American, went down to Chill to seek
his fortune. They met and, after q
romantic and tempestuous wooing, the
giri, who was only IL, married him.
He brought her TO America and,
according to her lawyers, almost at
once began neglecting her and mis-
treating her. With his handsome face
and charming personality he was one
OF those men who are the Joy Of the
great whi0 way lured him as the
fiRme lures moth. He was man Of
many loves. He spent his wife's for
tune on jewels and dresses, and wine
suppers for chorus girls. He put the
supreme Insult upon her Of even bring
ing his women companions into her
home, until, at last, she could stand
Il no longer and she divorced him.
There had been q child born to her,
and In her loneliness and her misery
for she was q stranger In q strange
land-her heart had set itself with
more than the ordinary mother deyo-
ton upon this babe, q beautiful lit
he boy. Her own family and friends
W0I0 I00uo9u0E VI tuAACD away y LIE
child was all that she had to love-
the only frail little spar Of happiness
that she had to cling to In the great
black Sea Of misery on which her life
boat had been wrecked at the very
beginning of tt voyage. :.
She asked the courts TO award her
the custody OF the child 50 that she
might 70 back to Chile and dwell
among her own people, and have the
comfort Of her mothers love and sym
pathy. The court refused to permit
the child to be taken out OF America
and ordered that he should live al.
ternate months with mother and faith.
or. and IL was when she believed that
her former husband was deliberately
breaking faith with this arrangement
and that he was planning to keep the
boy that the desperate mother fired
her fatal shot. - al r..
But before this she had been mad
dened by the little boys artless tales
Of the life he led with the father, for
unknowing what he told, the little r
year-old baby lisped of beautiful la
dies to whose perfumed apartments
his father took him, and Of bar keep
ers that he had been taught to call
BY their names, and the tender mer-
eies Of hired servants who put him
60 bed when his father was away from
home ct night.
OF course there can be no justifi.
cation for murder. The individual
cannot be permitted to take ven
geance TOR individual wrongs. That
way would lie chaos and the over.
throw OF al law and order. The law
must take its cold, hard way, but in
the case Of this poor tortured woman
who has slain the faithless husband
who had not only broken her heart,
but she believed had taken her child
from her, there viii stand back of her
the sympathy OF every woman in the
land who win pray that strict justice
win turn aside its face and let mercy
reign IN its stead. ~.
Women have no bitterer complaint
against the law than the way in which
Il deals with them about their chill
dren. In many states the law gives
the child entirely to its father, in
several until very recently il was
even possible for q man to will his
unborn child away to q stranger, and
IN most Of the states 1t has taken a
long hard fight to get laws passed
that made the mother who bore a child
equal guardian OF IL with its father.
And this In the face Of nature that
makes the mother passion, even of
the dumb brute, the strongest instinct
Of its being. Molest its young and
the gentlest animal win turn upon you
and fight TO the death, and among
human beings It is the mother love
that Is the one blind. changeless pas.
sion that endures all things. that suf.
fers al things, and that no iii treat.
ment can kill -