Show I t I Q B Bigger and Better Birthdays r By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Robert Louis Stevenson willed his birthday to a friend who was born on February A. A man In a New England town played ragman recently recently re- re and picked UP all the discarded birthdays out Dt f the ash cans or of neglect birthdays ot of the negligent gent the hard headed the unsentimental and the ashamed He dusted ot off each pach bIrthday rubbed It oWn own and handed It to varIous fellow citizens who I ld tour four years Instead ot of one to save up enough wind to blow blowout out the candles on theIr birthday cakes nut But what's the use ot of bIrthday anyway anway asked on an lIn We never celebrate them Im I'm teaching my eL eLen 1 en tn to forget torget how old they are and not to mark their lives off oCt In milestones that end with one a little larger than the rest done In the best Vermont granite i I couldn't answer r him then except to say the use ue of at anything being one ot of those people who can think up the smartest and cleverest ot of repartees and arguments only after I go to bed at night Also one one oneat of at thole thoe who leaves a fight and goes home to hurl hIs epithets over the telephone It If he bothers to read this he will get his answer Let us take It for tor granted that It Is silly and foolish to celebrate birthdays or any sort or of I anni- Let us tal take e It for tor granted that It Is a hangover hangover hang hang- over from the middle ages and even class It with and superstition Very well then what To begin with It shows appreciation just IlS as a bouquet ot of flowers does to a celebrity or a medal to toa toa a hero The effect on a little child Is marvelous He Improves per pr cent In his own estimation if fC he is made a fuss tuss over on one special day all his own It Is the Bame same wIth older people too Our stock ot of self esteem goes up amazIngly It if someone takes notiCe notice no- no tice of at our natal 1 da day And then the presents and the warming attention What Wh Is life lite made ot of but contacts of at one sort or another an- an other Need all th se contacts be for business or mind improving Why h neglect the ImprovIng heart ones Ye We are so flO matter fact so deadly cynical so hardly material Heres Here's to bl bigger gr and better birthdays And bigger bigger big big- ger and better birthday cakes with for tor a hundred hundred hun hun- dred candles s |