The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-08-18

Also Like Attention on Their
Birthdays.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Speaking Of. birthdays, do you re-
member how proud you were on the
day when you slipped out OF IL into
10? That was real milestone on the
road. and you felt a good deal taller
and much more important when you
were fairly in the teens than you did
in the first dozen years of your life.
Then, when 16 came and three more
of the wonderful white mile-stones
had been passed, you were again In a
different world. Girlhood has many
phases and changes and is altogether
a most interesting and fascinating Pc
Rod both to those who stand by and
watch it. and to those who are in the
midst of its pleasant time.
l suppose that you have a birthday
book. Every girl should have one, sc
that she may keep in mind the birth
days of the dear people at home, OF
teachers, friends, chums and every
| body in whom she has some measure
of interest. 1t Goes not so much mat
| ter what the name of the particular
birthday book is, but it should have
a sentiment in prose or verse for every
day in the year, and a blank space un-
| der each date where names OF friends
may be written.
Nothing gives more pleasure to
| friend at a distance than to receive
a letter from Bessie or Marjorie on
the morning of a birthday, letter
carrying good wishes, message OF
cheer and an assurance OF love. ii
Wilhelmina in south Dakota on
ranch, ten miles from a neighbor,
shall have dropped into her lap on
the morning of her fifteenth birthday
a letter from Caroline in Tennessee,
containing a pressed flower, book
mark, or merely four pages of merry
chat, her heart will glow with new
warmth the live-long day. She will
know that Caroline took trouble fos
her and that she went to the post
Office and found out precisely how
many days it would take for her let
ter to reach its destination. Caroline
| living In a village with neighbors
close by, could hardly appreciate how
lonely Wilhelmina sometimes felt, but
she had bridged over the space be
tween by her word in season.
Does there happen to be among you
acquaintance a girl whom everybody
loves, or a girl who has few relatives
and is far from home, or a girl wht
is tired and dropping, or still another
shut in by illness and compelled to ST
still by the hour instead of goint
about as you do at her own swee
will? Any one of these girls woult
be made extremely happy II her class
mates or her friends should send her ,
birthday shower. Suppose you begii
to plan 1t two or three weeks In ad
vance of the date You will thel
choose the place where the shower Il
to be given. If at the girls own home
: her friends will meet there and TAX
her by surprise, although they will b.
wise IL they give hint beforehand Il
her mother or older sister as to thei
intention.
Surprises may fall on a househol,
at an inconvenient moment. and 1t 4
generally better to take the head O
the family into confidence before pro
, ceeding with them. The girl hersel
may be kept very properly in ignor
ance of the compliment that Is to b
!, paid her. Brides often have shower
, of linen or china before their weddin
J days. but | see no reason why othe
!, people may not have showers. toe
, Yours to your friend who has a birth
: day may include plants, photographs
flowers in bloom, books, bon bons o
; anything else that you choose t
bring, and the greater the variety tn
, more pleasing the occasion will be.
. A girl l knew had birthday show
er given her and years after 1t, look
ing over box of souvenirs, she foun
among other little things that ha
been put away, bit of cardboard wit
Z a Latin motto worked in steel bead
r and stitched carefully to piece {
!. white satin ribbon. The girl who ha
| worked it for her was by that tim
/ on the other side of the globe and the
|. had not seen or heard from one ar
i other in long time, but the mott
2 with its quaint message of unchans
q ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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