RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 5

RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.

Tho Paris Divorce Court gave Madame Emile Mariier the custody. of her child. But Madame Mariier could find neither father nor son, and during eight years failed to trace theiu. However, she discovered them recently, and claimed the child. The father and son were summoned to attend at the Correctional Chamber, and Madame Mariier appeared to prosecute her right. But a difficulty occurred. Madame Marlier's soil declined to rejoin Madame Mariier. "I wont' go to her," he'said, stamping his foot; "I stay with my father." "The law is oil my side," said Madame Mariier. "and I demand my child." The Judge had no option but fco decide in Madamo Marlier's favour and pronounce sentence against tho father. But •as the sentence was imprisonment, "avec surais''"—which dkmuis tli&t M. Mariier does not serve the term unless within a certain period ho has again offended against the law in some way, and as the Bench, in addition, advised him to go before the Civil Tribunal and claim his child on the ground that Master Mariier desired to remain in his company, it does not appear, for all the law on her side, that Madame Mariier has had so much to say in the matter after all. Master Mariier, at the age of 11, is taken very seriously—Loudon "Daily Telegraph."