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Maternity 161
MATERNITY
MOTHERHOOD to-day is on the lips of every
penny-a-liner, every social patch-worker and polit
ical climber. It is so much prated about that one
is led to believe that motherhood, in its present con
dition, is a force for good. It therefore re
quired a free spirit combined with great dramatic
power to tear the mask off the lying face of
motherhood, that we may see that, whatever its
possibilities in a free future, motherhood is to-day
a sickly tree setting forth diseased branches. For
its sake thousands of women are being sacrificed
and children sent into a cold and barren world
without the slightest provision for their physical
and mental needs. It was left to Brieux to in
scribe with letters of fire the crying shame of the
motherhood of to-day.
Brlgnac, a provincial lawyer and an unscrupu
lous climber for political success, represents the
typical pillar of society. He believes implicitly
in the supremacy of God over the destiny of man.
He swears by the State and the army, and cringes
before the power of money. Naturally he is the
champion of large families as essential to the wel
fare of society, and of motherhood, as the most
sacred and sole function of woman.
He is the father of three children, all of whom
are in a precarious condition. He resents the idea
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