A FAMILY PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1398, 26 March 1912, Page 9

A FAMILY PARTY.

A meeting of twonly-one souk, .some of whom had never seen each other before, took place in London recently on the birthday of ttic mother, Jlr-. Corfield, a grey-haired Lincolnshire woman. The Mill", wiio :iii' ail grown up. ciuni' from all paris. Two had journeyed from fruit farms in (.'<madii: others who aro soldiers liad obtained special furluugh. But the strangest feature of the meeting was (hat t'ne mother had to introduce sumo of thn sons to each other. They met as strangers. For the first time, for instance, the eldest son saw his two youngest brothers. Ho had left his mother's home for distant lands before the others were born. Only the happy smiling mother with 'the silvergrey hair was able to recognise each member of this huge family, in tho evening the whole party witnessed the pantomime of "Cinderella" at the Kennington Theatre, where they occupied the greater part of a row in tho dress circle. Not to attract attention, tliev arrived in twos or threes. But the audience became acquainted with the nature, of tho jiarty, and when "I'm twenty-one to-day, one of tho pantomime songs, was rendered special significance* the whole hou>.e, including the twenty-0110 sobs, joined laughingly in the chorus.