Show SUGGESTS THAT THE YEAR BEGIN MAY 1 the interpreter writing in the may Amer american lican magazine suggests that the now year ought to begin may alay 1 rather than january Janucz ry 1 he ahe says if an arrangement coul ve b s made with the almanac makers 1 I 1 1 would be in favor of having the year begin with the first of may alay on the first of january I 1 bave no real st sensation mEation of the beginning of a new now period the starting marting of a aea deal between the last day of pe ae cember comber and the first day of januar y there exists no substantial dIffer difference enot my heart does doe s not no signify by a single throb that it is aware of the change nature does not turn over in its sleep when the whistle blows and tho the bolls bells ring to announce the artificial dawn of the artificial year or disturb the snow blanket under which it has lain inana inanimate for a mouth month or more on th the e other hand we spontaneously signal izo the arrival of the spring by a revolution in our thoughts our manners oar our physical relations to the world our clothes our houses and our habits nature contemPt contemptuous IlOus of the astronomers astron omera shakes off its cold lethargy and gives us a happy new year at the flowery threshold thre 13 hold of the rn month 0 nt h of may I 1 have hive no notion of how the change I 1 suggest could be brought about or whether pope plus who saw the real nl new amr year sail splendidly across the lagoon in his beloved venice for many years could upset the decree of ills learned predecessor I 1 can only say my own blood tells me that although by the almanac we are today well into tho the second quarter of the new ww year the old year Is still with us and the new year is about to dawn ok t 1 I |