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Show Pathos in Passing of Old-Time Family Album The London Sunday Times notes the wane of ancestor worship (western type) : "Ancestor worship is, apparently, on the wane. A French writer has pointed point-ed out that the custom of keeping a family album is no longer popular, and draws from the fact a moral concerning concern-ing the decay in pride of race. There is, indeed, a certain pathos in the decline de-cline of the album of family portraits. "There is pathos in it, and there is danger, too. How many a man, in years gone by. tottering on the verge of dipsomania, has been saved by the recollection of 'his sisters and his cousins, whom he reckoned up in dozens?' How many a man was rescued res-cued from the primrose path by the contemplation of Aunt Susan, 'awful in her shoulder-of-mutton sleeves? Today, alas! it is unlikely that the forger's hand would be stayed, the burglar's jimmy arrested, by the solemn sol-emn thought that ,Great-Uncle Robert would never have acted thus." |