Show REFORMING THE TH CALENDAR Another change chango in the calendar has been suggested and the plan is said to have made an impression upon the pope It was through the Roman pon pen pontiff pontiff tiff tire Gregory that our present method of dividing the year into days daya with an extra day every fourth year was adopted The Catholic church chur h at the time the Gregorian calendar came Into common use was vas supreme In many many countries and arid the tho wishes of the pope were readily carried out There were wore some rulers however who declined to follow tollow the lead of Rome Homo Great Britain for tor instance did not adopt the new cal cat calendar calendar endaz until the tha day d y of February 1732 yet we celebrate the because at the time Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar we were eleven el ven days behind the Catholic countries and in order ord r to catch up It became necessary to call the the Russia and the Mohammedan countries still cling ding to their ancient methods principally owing oving to religious prejudice Russia Is now 13 3 days behind the tha rest of Qt q Eu Europe Europe Europe rope The followers of at Mahomet have a system peculiarly their own for mark marking markIng markIng ing time their clocks being reset se daily Until recently rec the Gregorian calendar I Iwas was supposed to be the very acme of perfection so the latest proposition has been received with more or less sur prise It Is now proposed that the year shall contain exactly weeks New Years being regarded as a day apart from the numbered days of ot the month and also leap year day when it occurs The result of amending the calendar in this manner would be that the year would always begin on Mon Monday Monday Monday day July 4 would Invariably fall on Wednesday Christmas on Tuesday I birthday on Thursday and Linc birthday on Sunday Another feature of ot the tho proposed in innovation Innovation novation is to observe Easter Sunday on April 7 making unnecessary the elaborate calculations now used to de do determine termine the proper time for the ob observance observance servance of or this Christian festival There is some doubt as to the acqui acquiescence acquiescence acquiescence of Pius X in this part of the program In fact It is I doubtful if an any of ot the great nations of at the world would adopt the new now calendar on the spur of the moment The Tha present agitation simply serves to show the possibility of ot a change some time In the future |