In order to keep the home the center of interest for all members of the family it is important that all birthdays be observed in some appropriate manner. The following suggestions are made, out of many that might be offered, as features of a pleasant evening in celebration of such an event.
- Have the chair of the honored member of the family decorated with flowers appropriate to the month in which the birth-day falls.
- Have a birth-day cake with as many candles as the years of age and have the honored member cut and serve it.
- Have the honored member read from his favorite poem the lesson that he wishes to leave for the family.
- At the conclusion of the Home Council let all stand and sing to the tune of Auld Lang Syne:
Another golden mile, my Dear, Another golden mile;
Your love was golden, too, my Dear, In all this golden year.
And now we pledge our love anew, We pledge our love anew;
And whatsoe’er the years may bring, Our love will e’er be true.