Show H HAD A D NO CHRISTMAS there Is one place afi on the pacific ocean where there is no christmas christinas travelers toward the orient who have about half way completed their journey and going to bed on oil tile the evening of the twenty fourth wake the next day on the morning of the twenty sixth the twenty fifth christmas day 1 vanishes completely it goes as though it never existed which Is true all travelers on the broad bosom of the pacific making westward trips are not thus cheated out of a holiday only those in ships which reach the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude on christmas eveald eve are robbed of their christmas those traveling in the opposite direction have two christmas days in succession so 0 father time Is not altogether heartless in playing tricks on santa claus an experienced navigator explains the mystery of the missing christmas for westbound travelers and the extra Yule yuletide tlde tor for those bound east thus in just abent the middle ot of we the Paci pacific ficle Is the one hundred and i fa 4 C degree of longitude and when that imaginary line Is reached the wesl v cat ward traveler drops one day out of I 1 ils his calendar caten dar for tile the year that line lin 0 crosses the antipodes or point on the earths surface which Is precisely opposite to greenwich eng the place at which by common consent 7 of all nations the counting of time begins at noon noonday A ay when the sun Is directly overhead at greenwich at other points to the westward tile the time will be earlier by one hour for each 15 de gre greeso greesak esat longitude so that when degrees Is reached it will be midnight twelve hours have thus been gained and the other 12 would be added it the ile journ journey ey around them the globo globe were completed so by universal agreement the twenty firth fifth of december would bd dropped by all navigators ru reaching the fatal lin line e on tile the previous ibus day and travelers would be cheated out of their christmas at the only place on the hid earths surface ca whore such a thing could b happen appen i |