[cotsworth] the need of a " rational almanac " 241 



Where is that likelier to he developed than in the inventive minds 

 of enlightened Americans, who have attracted the most energetic youth- 

 ful people from all nations and creeds to this continent, where monthly 

 payments are most frequent and where cosmopolitan people most need 

 the four- week-month and " Eational Almanac " for perpetual use. 



Probably no otlier subject for reform can be ?o easily accomplished 

 to yield such daily widesprejirl benefits to all nations, because all humanity 

 would thereby personally gain increased convenience and be permanently 

 relieved from almanac uncertainties and inconveniences. 



As Mr. Philip very truly writes, " The complications and inconven- 

 " iences which thus arise are incessant, and nothing but custom and an 

 '^ apparently universal ignorance of the extremely simple way in which 

 '*' these inconveniences can be obviated could possibly account for the 

 " apparent contentment with which they have been so long accepted." 



It would be very difficult to suggest a more desirable subject for 

 international negotiation, or one more worthily tending to strengthen 

 the bonds of peace and international good-will. 



