Show Other Points of View LEAP YEAR YEAH Julius Caesar who was so 80 efficient that he found time timeto to stick sUck a a. finger In most of or tho the pies of ot his world in invented invented in- in vented Leap Year At least he ho gave orders to his astronomers astronomers astron astron- omers to attend to tho the calendar They figured out a year of ot days that days that Is a Leap Ye Year r every ery tour four years years ears but their estimate was 11 minutes and 11 14 seconds too long Ions Pope Gregory XHI XIII set the tho clock right again b by suppressing sup sun pressing te ten days and ordering that there bo ho no no ary aop 29 9 In three out of over every four tour centenary years Tho The potentates of or the Eastern church unwilling to accept anything from Rome kept to the tho old reckoning and so to this day it itis is possible to go through all of or tho the Easter observances in a Western country and then Journey journey journey Jour jour- ney to Greece or to Russia arriving before beCore Easter is kept there ther The Tho rho English aIwa always deliberate did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1750 when they had to drop eleven on days instead of or ten to set themselves right right- That is tho the reason that in the older histories tho the birthday birthday birth birth- da day of ot George Washington Is 18 given as February 11 II But tho the heart interest of 0 Leap Year puts its scientific side in hi tho the hadow A Scotch law of or 1288 gave savo th the girls a right to do the theat at asking and arid made mado the bachelor who de declined declined de- de dined a a. Leap Year proposal subject to a a. fine lne A few fen years later Franco France enacted a similar statute In tho the fifteenth tit tit- If- If century the law had spread as far ar as Genoa Genca and Florence George Bernard Sha Shaw is of ot the opinion that every cry year Is Leap rear Lear His pIa play Man n and Superman is his attempt to prove it Shaw may bo be right but it il Is difficult to to collect st statistics because married men are trained to a certain reticence Boston Boston Globe |