Show Maybe It Will Be Unlucky on Calendar Only JOO I i. i fr F v i rs q v A i v 4 I iv 11 f r r w I 4 3 S p V AWi 8 9 10 ii ii x ft 2 I f j 4 v v ft i v 1 m m n ONLY ONE UNLUCKY DAY IS 0 ON N CALENDAR FOR NEW YEAR Helen Toronto points to lone Friday the Its in May Almanac Makers Scan 1938 Mild Winter Tops Forecasts ts By BUFORD SOMMERS SOl Happy New Year Who says Who knows what kind of a year 1938 is to be Most of the wishers well-wishers do not but the men who make the almanacs do Lets Let's take a look at the record I I To begin with a lot of folks get cheated out of one payday Those Thos who still can be trusted not to spend their Saturday wages wages wages' foolishly foolishly foolishly fool fool- are the losers True there are five months with five Saturdays compared with say the Tuesday crowd who have only four extra paydays during 1938 But the first Saturday comes on January 1 a holiday and the bosses probably paid the help the year before and the money has gone the way of most of the New Years Year's resolutions of that year Be sure to keep January 6 open That's Epiphany a day you may want to celebrate It marks the marriage feast at Cana although it has hes not been observed since the i fifth century Easy Winter Vinter I It looks like an easy winter I though Groundhog day falls on Wednesday February 2 and as the seers have decreed that day dayto dayto to be cloudy the groundhog will I not see his shadow thus circumventing circumventing circum circum- venting enting six more weeks of j cirCUm-j winter Were 1938 a leap year those collecting collecting collecting col col- col- col their salaries on Tuesdays would have the laugh on their Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- colleagues as the fifth Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day would fall on February 29 Its It's a little ambiguous whether the almanac makers intended March to come in like a lion or like a lamb iamb The first when by the way the sun rises at is slated to be damp which may mean either lion or lamb The clue may be in inthe inthe inthe the which is forecast as warm doubtless a quality leaving leaving leaving leav leav- ing the first of the month to Leo Citizens will do well to go to church on Palm Sunday April 10 instead of in the garden garden garden gar gar- den as the day will be a poor one I for planting or transplanting Fair Fairweather Fairweather I weather is permitted on Easter I Sunday out of deference no doubt I Ito to the new bonnets The is labeled Low Sunday Many may regard this as a typographical error error error er er- er- er feeling Sunday January 2 should be reserved for this pur pur- pose Christmas on Sunday Mothers Mother's day Sunday May 8 is listed as a holiday more than is done for Fathers Father's day The is s Rogation Sunday which as the devout will know is the Sunday before the Ascension June refuses to give the brides a break in weather only nine days being listed as pleasant If the Fourth of July makes a double holiday by falling on a Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day Christmas makes up for it by slipping in between two workdays on a Sunday Labor day falls on ona ona ona a Monday September 5 but then dont don't they all Thanksgiving is characteristically consistent in falling falling falling fall fall- ing on a Thursday November 24 For those who want to prepare for or it December 31 1938 is due to tobe tobe tobe be a blustery day News writers get one break throughout the whole year Friday the occurs but on once e in May so only once in all 1938 will it be necessary to write write and and read read one one of those stories |