| Show ct Wo We bro Itro in receipt of ot a n communication tion from rom Herr Jorr Fritz of ot Zurich In hn which the writer recommends recommends mends a radical change In the tha calen calendar I dar Ills His proposition proportion briefly stated is that tho the year be divided divide Into twelve entire and anil two half months montha all nil en on entire tire tiro months month to consist of at 28 18 days and tho the of 14 1 days duy The rho first of or the two ho he suggests can be placed At ett t tho the end of or the first half year er r antI and might bo be known ns as the summer the sec sed second eC ond Is to follow ollow the th last month of ot tho the year jeur and Is he to bo be known as ns tho winter I The and und the tho day the will bo ho placed at tho the end Oft of ot the year yearend and end will wilt bo ho quite Independent of ot tho I work week W lo or month so 80 that these theMe days daya will wilt neither ne have the tho name nor the tho dato of o a p weekday Tho The writer says lIas I I had at first expressed ed the tIle Idea which I thought quite new of or divid dividing dIvidIng ing the year ear Into 13 months mouths of ot 28 days each ench but it IL has come to my knowledge I that this had bad al nl already already ready been advocated by Augusta Auguste Cornie the philosopher who tho died In tn 1857 After consideration I would ad advise adie vise Iso ie tho the above mentioned division as os i being more moro practical What tho the advantages would ouM be of o n such Ruch a 0 reform In tho the calendar Is not entirely apparent It 11 Is IR I clear that each cacti day of ot the tho week would In the new calendar bo In Its Ita fixed and unchangeable place Each Kach I ach month would begin on tho the same mo week weel weekday weekday day da this Ihl also Iso applying to each ench year ear each ench and each quarter of ot the year The Tho divisIon would also make the tho th week and nd month measures or of time the HIP units year y ar and month would by b this means men nil be become come caine with an nn Insignificant difference complete multiples always equal of o othe the week neck but whether these advantages would compensate for tor the disadvantages of ot a change Is It another question Calendars may bo be by Caesars Gaulin and popes II hut but common mortals mortal will find difficulties not e easily overcome The Tho Th reform of ot the calendar nt Rt a n time when whon Interests were much less IM complicated than then they th are all now flow was wail n a compare easy OIla mutter to secular or spiritual rulers ruler but bul It Is different In our day dc la still follows the th an Rn ancient dent clent undoubtedly for tor reasons similar liar to those which mak makes w cling to pounds pound shillings and pence antI and America us IL well ivell as England 1 to the tho yard stick changes at af affecting are lire not easily mode flied Julius Caesar was WAil a R great calendar reformer In n his iliA day It was ivan found necessary to Interpolate a It year of ot K days claa In order to bring the tho vernal equinox back to tn the th date of nt March 21 where It haul had been years ears before hla reign n At t the thc home acme time tim the tho Roman Homan year ear was Willi divided Into 12 I months In Instead stead of o 10 IO and Into Inlo 3 days It W waR wail s also 1110 found necessary to lid a 1 day every fourth year In year r the th months had bed the of o days dllY they th have now no except t that August AU had 30 days clays and February 19 t In ordinary years ell and 20 0 In leap years oars The month of ot July was Willi named for Julius I ansar and nd the next month for or Augustus Caesar C esar Augustus thought that he h ought might to have bays as a long n It month us as Julius and te he iC therefore took tonk a II day dA from February and nd added It to Au August August gust This WMS as his hll little reform of ot the calendar Hy it 11 the tinie Oregon Ort OO the Or reat nt no ho came pope there thero was an error of ot sev several v veral eral oral days In the calendar owing to the fact tal that th Julius Caesar haul had omitted to provide rr for tor the correction of or an nn I error of or U It minutes 1088 1035 seconds oC of o ofIl Il which his calendar year YIM wes was guilty guilt Bo Ho In 1583 US tho the flomen Catholic world worl 1 cut 10 days dRY out JUt of ot October Octol er and end adopt od nil what U Is known as lIa the Iho new Italy style stylo It was vaa also agreed to omit the so RO called day clay III from rom the tho end of years jears Unit bitt form orm each century unless It Is IK divisible by 4 ThU omits three thre leap year days In cach each tOd 00 years eRrs and amid brings bringa the tho calendar cal so closely up to tho tue solar year tar that additional cor cur corrections are lire not In thousands thousand ot 01 years |
