Review of The Mothering Heart

This is a simple morality play--the sort that was VERY popular in the early days of the cinema. People just loved tales about the evil of drink or the dangers in straying from your devoted spouse--and they made a lot of these pictures. This one is a pretty standard film about infidelity, though it is much better acted than most--with less histrionics and more subdued acting. And, up until the very end, I liked the film. However, out of nowhere, came a part about the baby becoming ill and then dying that just seemed out of place and irrelevant to the plot. Were they trying to say that somehow because of the husband's unfaithfulness that this caused the baby to die?! Huh?! I'm pretty confused about this whole thing now that I think about it.