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

writer
-HE unwritten law Of man has not
only set free but justified the act
Of thousands OF men who have
slain the men who robbed them Of
their wives
WIN the unWritteB 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'Ssul-
les. who shot her divorced husband
few days ago In his home al Hemp
stead, L. J., when he refused 10 give
her little boy back to her, even for
the time the court had allotted the
child 70 her.
Never was there a more pitiful
story with a grimmer ending than
that which lies behind this tragedy
IN high life. Mrs. D'Sanlles, who IS
only % now, is a beautiful woman
who belongs to an aristocfatic and
wealthy Chilean family. Jack D'Saul-
les, a handsome and fascinating young
American, went down TO Chill to seek
his fortune. They met and, after
romantic and tempestuous wooing. the
girl, who was only II, married him.
He brought her 70 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
or those men who are the Joy Of the.
street and the curse Of the home. The
great white way lured him as the
fame lures moth. He was a man of
many loves. he spent his wtfe'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, az last, she could stand
Il no longer and she divorced him.
There had been child born to her,
and In her loneliness and her misery
for she was q stranger in a 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
we're thousands Of miles away. This
child was all that she had TO love
the only frail little spar OF happiness
that ahe had 70 cling TO IN the great
black sea or misery on which her life
boat had been wrecked at the very
beginning Of IS voyage. Z. :
She asked the courts to award her
The custody Of the child so that she
might 70 back to Chile and owen
among her own people. and have the
comfort az her mothers love and SYM
lathy. The court refused to permit
the child to be taken out OF America
and ordered that he should live al.
tefnate months with mother and faith
e.. and ii 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
hef fatal shot. .s5''.1 :. 5.''
But before this she had been mad
Gened by the little boys artless tales
of the life he led with the father, for
unknowing what he told, the little f.
year-oId baby lisped OF beautiful la
dies 10 whose perfumed apartments
his father took him, and Of bar keep
ers that he had been taught TO call
A0A4AUNs
cles Of hired servants who put him
70 bed when his father was away from
home At night. 5s'ss
OF course there can be no justiti-
cation for murder. The individual
cannot be permitted to take ven
geance fos individual wrongs. That
way woulH he 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 win stand back or her
the sympathy Of every woman In the
land who win pray that strict justice
wiz turn aside its face and let mercy
reign IN It's stead. '-s "l.~e-7
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 II was
even possible for a man to win his
unborn child away TO q stranger, and
Al most Of the states il has taken q
long hard fight TO set laws passed
that made the mother who bore 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
81 It's being. Modest its young and
the gentiest animal win turn upon you
md fight to the death, and among
AMMAN beings It is the mother love
Nat Il the one blind, changeless pas.
b that endures al things, that suf-
al things. and that no III treat
n can kill.