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Show Family Hlntory. Family history is history dramatized. It has been said that the obscurest individual in-dividual life if truthfully writton, would surpass any romance, and this is true of the obscurest family's life. AU families fam-ilies are equally ancient On earth individual in-dividual immortality is represented in the undying life of overy faintly; it requires re-quires the life of a family to round out the events individuals find so out of joint The cloud that overwhelmed the wayfarer of one goneration for his successor floats into light The experiences experi-ences of foregone ages are stored in every human being. If the history of a particular family is searched it is because be-cause it is searchable, not because it is great Great and small are terms of ignorance in regard of historic causation. causa-tion. In this chain the little link may be the most important. To tell the story of one family is to tell what is essential es-sential in the story of all. AL D. Conway Con-way in Harpers. |