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Show YEAR ONCE EEGAN IN MARCH Change In Style May Be Said to Dato From 1752 Great Militant Events in Month. Few people know, or, If they do, have forgotten, that March, and not January, at one time was the first month of the year, remarks the Chicago Chi-cago Journal. For commencing the year with March there seems to bo sufllclent reason In the fact that It l the first season after the "dead year," In which decided symptoms of growth take place. The name Is derived from tlie Romans, Ro-mans, among whom It was at an early period the first month of the year, and! continued to be In severa.1 countries to a comparatively late period, the legal year beginning, even in England, on March 20, until the change of style in 1752. For the Romans to dedicate-their dedicate-their first month to Mars and call It Miirtlus seems equally natural, considering con-sidering the importance they attached to war and the use they made of it. In the history of our own country April eppears to carry off the palm for the month In which great militant events occurred, yet In the world war a number of epoch-making incidents-took incidents-took place in March; for Instance, the-revolution the-revolution in Russia in 1017, when Czar Nicholas abdicated on March 15. The big drive on the 50-mile front from Arras to La Feti began on the-21st. the-21st. and Faris was In that month bombarded bom-barded by "Big Bertha." |