Show MEANING OF THE MONTHS january begins the year and looks both ways toward the year just past and that just coming coining it was therefore named by the romans lor for their god of war janus lie ile had two faces and was therefore called janus Hi Bi frons irons which may he be freely translated holy two front originally this thia wn wag only the eleventh eleven th month and the four preceding were named from septem octo and decem as the then were the seventh eighth 1 ninth and tenth months it would take it alume to explain how is as a quaint old almanac says pays such sixes and luch sevens the months were knocked to that ten tell became translated into octo it il to say ray january jannary begins trie tile year now flow and the other months are to be explained explain cd in their turn february was an unfortunate month front from the start the romans did not at first intend to have any such month but finding the year all askew they added some days day at the last of it and designated them as the days to purify february in old latin fill finding they had set the time too early th they y put the new month after january e and measured it by the moon when they began to purify for the comin coming summer they ate beans instead d of meat and therefore na named med the season lent 1 chentes Cl I entes beans by miscounting the days however their year soon 0 got two months behind and julius cezar overhauled it again march is a name of war the romans named it for mars their war god perhaps because winter and spring ta contend for the month we vo owe the romans ono one for making this tile the third mouth month for this laid the basis for sonic some olour of our finest old crusted jokes such as march fortel addressed to tile the ret retiring irin president and the minstrel inin command to the soldiers january february march let us remember niber the romans even for th this is little on second thought let us remember them 1 all the more as they were not in a g general way a huni humorous crous people april is supposed to be so called because things open about that time latin ape rire it is the month so eo to speak having no mythology M the month is in this latitude sacred to catarrh whon t the new humanity does away with a all I 1 old superstition and rc ic promises this air patary a U be called Springe hick or r or Sneeze reezer or sonic borne tender little name of that instructive sort may is by common consent the synonym for flowers and a d poetry women and children music and moonlight everything sweet and soft As a matter of fact the popular poetry for the month would suit the last half of it and the first half of june much better the romans named it from milia maia daughter 13 of atlas and mother of Her mercury cury the romans seldom got married in may as tile the festival of 0 f the dead was celebrated early in tile the month it is a bad omen to be taken side sick in this his month especially ally J for farmers and gardners gardeners gard ners juno was the wife of jupiter in classic mythology 0 and made it hot for him bini hence bence june sonic some say however that it was so eo called because it was the month for YOU young men juniors junio juni ores juno was the great goddess of motherhood and grow growing in nature and so tile the 1 romans 1 omens honored this month with her name she was also subject to sudden storms of wrath and jealousy and was very vindictive which led virgil to ask in heavenly minds can such resent mcnab dwell august with its thirty one days is ii a perpetual reminder of liow how augustus cresar cn sar octavius slipped up on oil his uncle julius lie ile insisted on having r a big k month named for himself also and so pulled the whole calender around so eo as to wing hi ins two thirty one da day 7 months together in midsummer mid sumin e r as in midwinter ter at the same time chaning changing the name from or tile the sixth chich abi ach it then was to augustus dog do days prevail in this month because the sun suit is in canis major and sirius arises about the same time as the sun at least so eo the ancients thought C but it is now known that the heli heliacal lical rising 0 of sirius is peculiarly indeterminate anti and therefore every dog no now lias has liis his day september is the month and the etli the particular day lay on which the creation odthe of the world 11 was completed according to the old the russian priests added that man mail was wag created i in n this month because more fruit ripens in it than any other th that it was when they had no n 0 ideas id C a S of bouth F 0 ut h latitude and had never heard odthe of alie equator in fit the roman calender it was the seventh month and so eo they named it from septem 1 I I 1 seven october was the romans ei eighth lith month originally orilin ally and therefore named from octo oclo eight in the old legends it was set se 0 t down as aa the month in which adam and E eve to were ex expelled belied from paradise november was ninth in month oil ti to the romans jt it lias has long been a notable month for signs and omens as well as religious dates though no one can call show why wh Y the saxons called it 1 I blood month because they slaughtered sla 11 cattle and salted away all their winters TV i liters beef in this month tile the old had many important religious reli ious observances in this month and the christians have adopted some of them it closes most appropriately with a general thanksgiving 0 for tile the fruits fruit s of the season past p ast the tenth dec decain ein month in the old aloman oman calendar but now the twelfth is th month of boly memories in all christian lands the yule log 0 ind and the christmas tree kris ari ari kringle agle and santa claus clans the vacation the home coming tho the gifts and the holidays blics a arc re of december christmas Chrisful as has C conquered on all classes the old puritans fought against L it in vain so by the triumph h of faith and bation combined the season of cold and often of sleet and rain the time of shortest days and longest nights is turned into the season I 1 of greatest c cheer arid and hilarity J 11 II lea keadle dae |