Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1921, Page 68

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.\—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—MARCH 6, 1921 AMONG US MORTALS - Birthdays -3- By W. E. Hiil c ht 1921 N Y Trilune Copy-ix! The zero hour at little Ruthie’s birthday party. A game of tag and a fight are in progress and young Freddy Medley— -with the aid of a derby Ruthie’s papa would just as soon Freddy did not do stunts with—is giving a screaming imitation of an English swell. Ruthie’s mamma is won- dering why the other mammas don’t hurry up and call for their children. Aunt Lottie, the birthday card fiend, who always remembers a birthday, particularly if the party at the other end has reached the age when it is kindness to forget now and then. Aunt Lottie has just found such a beautiful card on which are the senti- ments: “I bring a message of sweet cheer, to speed life’s end, by just one year,” in gold and silver tinsel. This is Mr. Rouse’s sixty-fifth anniver- sary and he is making the boys in the office guess his age. If they do what is ex- pected of them and guess forty-five, there will be a little ses- sion in Mr. Rouse’s private office with a bottle of Scotch. Jenny has the piece of birthday cake with the prize in it—not the usual ten-cent piece. but a little china kewpie. The kewpie is going down the wrong way. Pearl, the chorus lady, has been known to celebrate three birthdays in the same week —ualways her twenty-first—a convenient arrangement whenever any friends from Harvard or Princeton happen along. L2 SR “Oh, see the lovely, lovely book good Uncle Toby has brought you, Lilly! Isn’t it a lovely book! And isn’t Uncle Toby kind to have brought you such a beautiful birthday present! Tell Uncle Toby how pleased you are, Li]fly!‘L ;l'heT !berri)l:le moment when the gift Uncle Tol as . W3 AT ¥ ! . brought Lilly pruves to be a ver))" bad < A ) b 4 / O B ’ A Birthdays, to Mrs. Roebuck, are like any choice. The family are working overtime 2 b . k4 ) p " ] other days. At least Mrs. Roebuck is not covering up Lilly’s latent gratitude 3 ¥ i E - i 3 LR ¥ B hanging out any flags. She has been just ' 1 i : Y thirty-two for the last ten years.