Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-28

dissolution of her marriage was to see her
own son---her own flesh and blood-guded
by his own father into the company of
women who taught him everything opposed
to the dignified and virtuous principles that
she, as mother, was endeavoring to instill in
her boys nature
And when the judgment was rendered she
was amazed to find that the boy was given to
her only conditionally She had not sue
ceeded IN obtaining what she proposed to
attain through divorce. She had only sue.
ceeded in getting further and further away
from her little boy, in whose childish mind
the father exerted q sort of fascination by
means of all kinds of amusements so that
he would lose all his interest for his mother
and be more pleased in other company.
In my mind saw this great city. There
was the great White Way, theatres, cabarets.
music. lights, chorus girls, lively, boisterous.
whlrlwind OF people, frivolous like tho
golden bubbles Of champagne, that rise be-
fore the eyes, dazzle them for moment then
dissolve and disappear; SO do these gay be-
lngs 1--we life of emptiness in soul and heart.
The easy triumphs obtained by money at the
cost OF shame and humiliations are the apan-
age OF the great White Way. Alongside this
path saw another, very narrow path. and
treading it was the young mother, suffering
untold misery, forgotten in the deserted
home, Ignoring, in her conception of pure
wife g duty, the thorn of the other path and
the bruises to which her heart was subjected.
These two ways are very different. The
Spanish woman travelled one. She was COM
pelled to have recourse to divorce-some-
thing that for women of her race represents
nothing but tragedy, because their motherly
love Is like passionate feeling capable Of
making the most wonderful things and at the
same time capable of destroying everything.
The husband, without even thought of the
rum OF his own home, frequented the other
way Between them was the child. Each
one OF them followed the chosen path. But
one day Blanca Errazuriz became aware Of
the existence of plot aimed at depriving
her or her son, that innocent child
Then it was that the hour of tragedy
struck, like bolt from heaven It was the
supreme rebellion, rebellion brought on bv
an uncomfortable longing to free her son
from tho snares of the powerful hands of the
Yale athlete Her sole desire now was to
overcome the only obstacle that stood be.
tween her and all she had left.
II never felt inclined to speak to her ahont
anything connected with her marriage.
neither OF the past, of the present, nor the
tragedy, because mothers and daughters
hearts need no explanation to understand
each other" said Mrs. Errazuriz.
l., seeing the shadow of sorrow that COW
ers her face, see that there is something more
than mere ill-feeling at the bottom Of this
action l perceive that the child still repre-
sents bond between the De Saulles family
and the Errazuriz family.
The full sympathy Of American women.
who at present are struggling to help their
husbands, sons and sweethearts defend their
country and home, should 60 to Blanca En-
razuriz Dc Saulles, who was the victim of
an hour of madness when she saw her home
wrecked and her only son taken away from
her.