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Birthday Celebrations
Vary Over World
Washington — Birthdays - never more popular than today - are the most universal of all celebrations. Observances around the world range from riotous chit dren's parties in the United States to ceremonial Chinese gatherings, the National Geographic Society says. Primitive man celebrated no birthdays because he had no calendar. Some tribes considered counting wicked and kept no record of time. The Egyptians, who devised one of the first calendars, threw mon umental birthday parties. The biographer Plutarch related that Cleopatra honored Anthony “with the utmost prodigality of splendor and magnificence, so that many of the guests sat down in want and went home wealthy men." No Children’s Parties The ancient Greeks celebrated the birthdays of men and gods; women and children did not rate parties. Long before Washington and Lincoln, the Greeks observed birthdays of important men after their death. Greek gods had monthly birth days. Artemis, goddess of the moon and hunt, was honored on the sixth of every month. Moon shaped honey cakes lit with tapers were placed on altars in her temples -- the first birthday candles. Roman emperors celebrated theif birthdays with parades, circuses, and gladiatorial com bats. The Emperor Caligula ex pected everyone to turn out to honor him. The imperial wrath descended upon anyone who
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