Show The Family Reunions TO some people ties tics of kinship mean litI lit lit- I tie tIc They see no reason wh why second cousins should be anything to each other A reunion of oC such distant relatives would I seem to them as Illogical as for tor all aU the people peo peo- pie whose whoso names begin with tho the same letter let Jet ter to form an association Yet Tet there are stilt still a a. great many people who do feel teel tho the strength of or th these there e tics ties of not as many as formerly as q families famIlies fam tam are are- scattered nowadays all an over the country countr Still sun ono one sees in the tho nc newspapers papers constant reports of ot family gatherings largo large and small People travel cJ man many miles to attend them The ph phrase c that blood Is 18 thicker than water is Is not wholly meaningless mCl The fact that families havo have a a. common ancestor ought to mean some community of feeling and congeniality of oC sentiment The family reunions re ro unions are at least apt to gather together both rich and poor the prominent and the Ute obscure People seem at these occasions to forget torge the artificial lines created by money and society and to meet on tho the basis of ot a n. amore amore more natural and friendly sentiment I |