| Show NEW TEN HOUR DAY A scheme for decimal izing our time whereby the dasy til all consist of ten hours is being actively propagated by a new body of reformers this is tho idea tho day w begin nt midnight as it does now and tte figure 10 on the new clock dial would indicate midnight As there would only be ten figures instead 0 twelve an tho dial it follows that these bo placed differently ferent ly than obtains at present in fact there would be a space equal to our modern minutes between each figure so that 1 would bd placed at six minutes past so to speak 2 would bo twelve minutes past 3 would be minutes past 4 would be nearly where the 5 ia now and the new 5 would take tho place of our 6 and so on up the other side although the pace between the ng krcs ia not much larger a to this scheme yet the lapse ot time between tho hour would be considerably greater each hour would consist of of our present minutes so that it would equal iwo hours and twenty four minutes each hour would be divided into minu tea and each minute into seconds this mean that one ot the new minutes would crual ot our present divisions bearing appellation or nearly 1 minutes jt might bo mentioned hero that the minute marks between the figures would number ten on tho new dral so that they would be much closer together than th py are now the new seconds would bo shorter than the old ones mid this will be clear on reflection As the new minute would be almost half a long again as tho old one this would fincun that it could be divided into nearly the old seconds to bo more correct 83 but the system demands to alio minute no a portion fet wh of the 88 would auve to be stolen in order to the number to the exact length of tho new would be about 17 buths ot ahe old one advantage ot tha M acme would bo to do away with the i a m and p in which am 0 o perplexing to some it is by no means uncommon to find t jamin describing five minutes after midnight as p the that s it la night it must be postmeridian post meridian in the new scheme this would be imply it i suggested that the 10 eboch not be used and that 05 should donate civo minutes after the first points ti be remembered are that half past two would be equal to six in the morning 2 being a fourth of 10 just na 6 is th fourth of 24 midday would be efimy remember ed as five and half past seven or would be sit in the morning ibo other divisions would follow without difficulty the usual dinner hour would decrease to about forty and ohp ahu who left work tor his y repast ev dally at noon declare that he was having adte dibi t J aias 5 a i ner as the hour land would point to 3 the business man who goes to lunch at I 1 nowadays would leave his office at and return at if he had an old fashioned hour the k who leaves at 6 would have to admit that he worked till a distinction without a A modification of this scheme is put forward by some advocates of a decimal theory it is proposed to divide alio twenty four hours into two relays of ten hours just as we now divide into two the dials would be tha samo as for the previous scheme but all periods of time would bo halved tho hour would be equal to seventy two of our minutes the new minute would bo barely three fourths of its present length and the second would bo less atun half ot what it is now there would bo no difficulty in the manufacture of clocks and watches it would merely be a question of a slight alteration of tho works in order to cause tho hands to revolve more slowly the new diah could be painted with both tho new and the old bets ot figures to begin with and tho novelty ot tho idea would help tho trade it is said that mine jane hading has alio loveliest caesy in tho worl they are of tho clearest and purest brown like that of a mountain brook or wave washed onyx and veiled a thick fringe of black and silky lashes when touring in turkey sir hading learned of tho national custom of lengthening the elliptical space between the upper and lower lids by slitting the outer about a tenth ot an find sarc thin llie lids aa the 1 wound heats find decided to try it little arl the result has enado jane optics famous |
