The Washington times., 1917-08-07
BY MARGERY REX.

NEW YORK, Aug. Poor little
Blanca De Ssulles is in prison in the
very midst OF one OF the most fash
ionable colonies In all OF the world
colony in which she but lately had
place-for obeying the earliest and
most primitive instinct of every liv-
ing animal. Mother love for her on
spring-the same emotion that makes
hen shield her chicks against an
approaching danger-pulIed the trig-
ger OF the weapon with which John
Longer De Saulles was killed.
1t is older than any law known to
man: II is more recent than the last
man-made statute that has yet to
find its way to the law books. As
1t is in the beginning, Is now and
ever shall be in the case OF all
mothers and OF all little ones who
come In response to the greatest and
most mysterious OF all of Gods edicts.
Hunters have told how, when they
have taken a bear cub. the mother
bear, needless OF men. of rifles. OF
danger, and of death. came over many
weary miles to the guarded camp to
recover her cub at the risk OF her life.
And they agree that of all the dan
gerous fighters known to the chase
there is none half so deadly as the
she-bear bent upon the mission of
bearing home her lost young.
Mother Love Fearless.
The element OF mother love Is never
studied. 1t is instantly responsive
It is aroused without thought and
without fear. Solomon played upon IT
when he settled the dispute between
the women as to which should have
a certain child. He poised his sword
AMI said he would cut the child in
half and give each woman her por-
ton.
Instantly ,e mother cried aloud to
spare the child and let the other
woman have II.
Men who seek to Judge Blanca de
Saulles must remember these things
Years of the highest education, gem
erations of blood and breeding. all OF
the gliding influence OF wealth, could
not kill or conceal the primitive emo
ton that Is older than the most an
Client commandment, Thou shalt not
kill"
The female OF the species has never
regarded II a crime to kill in defense
Of her young. and so long as Inothers
suffer and mothers love there will
night the world to the very death for
the thing TO which she gave life.
Love OBeys No Law.
The law itself, in its century-oId
effort TO take the savage from human
nature, has constantly recognized the
right Of the parent to kill in defense
OF the child. But in this case the law
strikes an obstacle for which it had
not prepared. Society-and aother
primitive law-hAd arrayed parent
against parent. and a cold court de
cree had tried to make a legal agree
ment take the place of the dictates OF
a young and pulsating heart.
Love works by no rule; II obeys no
law. 1t is usually safe because Its
normal effect is pleasing. 1t Is only
when It Joins hands with its twin
sister Hate that there comes a clash.
So Law and Society are now called
upon to pass judgment upon a woman
for obeying q natural instinct
Consider the case. ladies and gentle
men OF the public jury: In a lonely
summer home. surrounded by all of the
comforts and all Of the Injuries that
great wealth might command. dwelt a
woman She was young. beautiful and |
gifted. Each OF the gods OF mythology |
had insisted upon presiding over her
natal destiny so that she had the best |
gifts that all might bestow.
Law Took Her.
The god OF wealth showered gold upon
physical charm. 1t was only the gods |
OF love who slyIy attached a string to |
his gift, and when he pulled back the |
string the gold furnished the Jewels |
grew dim. and pain robbed beauty OF Its |
light
In a fAr-ofr land Blance de Saulles |
ruled a little princess. There no one |
would have dared to give her pain II |
he had wished; much less did any
body wish to do so. Love came along |
and bore the princes from her charm
ed surroundings.
1t crossed the seas, OVERRIDE the
and. set at naught inter
vening continents. As a great reward
to a girl who had followed faithfully
and blindly, Love brought a beautiful
little boy, who nestled his tiny head
upon the breast OF the little princess
and kissed her when she bent TO
carress him.
The courts, strange men OF
strange tongue and of a strange land,
seized the reward that love had
brought and tore II from her breast.
Alone. bewildered and widowed by the
divorce process OF burial alive, sne
sat among her rich furnishings.
II was another Mignon, plaintively
asking "knowest thou the land where
The citron apples bloom
Only his MiRnon had not only lost
the land. but had lost the love thst
led her from it. So she sat clinging