The Tri County News

BIRTHDAYS NOT FORGOTTEN HERE; 4 HAVE SAME DATE

Has Its Drawbacks, However, In Number of Candles Needed for Individual Cake

Toledo, Ohio.—The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kolinski celebrated their birthday recently. Yet they are not quadruplets. Edward, the eldest, was nineteen; Albin became seventeen, Clarence fifteen and Stanley, Jr., thirteen.

It is easy to remember a birthday date in the family. But the amazing coincidence has its drawbacks. The number of candles needed for the inevitable cakes increased by four every year and the cost of 64 candles, such as graced the last party, is not to be sneezed at.

Then there is the problem of the cakes themselves. It was a simple matter back in 1909, when Edward appeared. Even in 1912, when Edward was three and Albin one there wasn't much of it.

Mrs. Kolinski had only two cakes to bake.

Things began to happen in earnest two years later when Clarence was born. The cake-baking question was assuming proportions. It was becoming so large, in fact, that the Kolinski home resembled a baker's establishment.

And then came the climax. Two years after Clarence's birth came Stanley, Jr., thus presenting the four-cake problem, which, together with Mrs. Kolinski's other duties, somewhat complicated matters.

There were four white, triple layer cakes, decked with pink candles, on the dinner table at the last party, however, and hereafter Mrs. Kolinski will make four cakes—one for each of the boys—because some day they will drift apart and her baking probably will not be required.