When such a group was to leave religious services were held giving the occasion the aspect of public mourning resembling that of a funeral. All knew that those who left would be forever lost to the home folks as completely as if they were carried to the grave. These various happenings may be regarded as the first act of the tragedy of the immigrant. The second takes place In America. You may think that I state it too strongly when I call what I am now going to narrate a tragedy. This may be so. but we shall not quarrel about words. You will possibly say that you have never heard of such a tragedy. Perhaps your father and mother. under whose care you have grown up. and whom you ought to know. were such immigrants. or your grandparents may have been. and they may not seem to have been the victims of any tragedy. That Is very probable. ad still the tragedy may have existed. only it was enacted deep down below the surface of things. This part of the tragedy. or what you may wish to call it. cbnsists. so far as the immigrant is concerned. In a desperate effort to convince himself that the cords which were severed when be left everything which was dear to him. which lie was attached to and felt In sympathy with. are not really broken. It is not easy to admit frankly that one has been parted forever from all that Is dearest to him in life.
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