Show LOVE PROVES SUPERIOR TO i LAWS DECREES j IC This One Shall Have the Child Savs the Court and the Other One Proceeds to Capture Cap-ture the Offspring of the Broken Partnership and Run Away With It 1 r JIG L 0 J Let Us Take a Sleigh Ride He Suggested Sug-gested to the Boys ii r AT i Tore the Child from the Arms of the Astonished Woman c LitT a i Mrs Cadlex Seized the Boy and Made Her Escape In an Auto New York Are the courts of the country turning into schools for kip napes There Is this newest case for example ex-ample of Mrs Maude C Clare of No 20 West Eightyfourth street Mother hunger proved too much for hershe kidnaped her little boy though he was In the custody of another by order of the court When the learned judge hands down his decision in tho case of Smith vs Smith does it mean that at once the divorced father or the divorced mother moth-er of tho little children must turn kidnaper Kid-naper Nobody consults tho children of course The wise verdict has been rendered Mrs Smith Is free to resume her maid on name of Miss Jones and gets tho custody of the two little Smiths boy and girl There is alimony a decree permitting Miss Jones to marry again and formal permission for the father to see his children once In so often And the very first tlmo ho does sea them ho steals them awayhe is a kidnaper in the eyo of tho law ilE Or It may bo tho other way The decree Is Mr Smiths Tho court says some unkind things about Mrs Smith and tho children go to the father for education and support MotherLove Triumphant But mcro legal verbiage cant ds stroy or root out motherlove Despite her failings Mrs Smith loves the little lit-tle ones sho brought into tho world She is hungry for them she wants to take them to her heart again and hear them whisper Mother But tho court has made its decree She must not see them Under tho law sho Is not regarded as a fit person per-son to bring them up But she finds them somehow and off sho runs with them sho has learned from the court to be a kidnaper She knows her lesson well Judges may sit and sit and expound the law to its last letter but fathers and mothers have a different code They aro learning to kidnap now Railway train automobile horses yachtsall have been used to kidnap children It is anything to get the little lit-tle ones out of tho state where the 111 vorco is granted for then It means delay more law and more court decisions de-cisions Meanwhile the kidnaper has the children And there has never been a conviction convic-tion for this kind of kidnaping Wrong as they bo no father or mother who has stolen back a child and hundreds have done sohas over gone to prison Moro children are kidnaped in the United States every year by father or mother than by all those criminals who steal children for ransoms or revenge And tho lesson Is learned in the divorce di-vorce court |