SIXTH ANNUAL MEETIIfG 



17 



'Calendar for 1919 and Ever After. 



December 1st. 1918. to be declared by edict to be 

 December 10th to bring the winter solstice for Xorthem 

 Hemisphere at December 31. 1918. At midnight of the day 

 now called December 21, 1918. will begin the first hour of 

 the first day of the first week of the first month of 1919. 



Xo Sundays will be lost or gained. 



In the United States holidays will be as follows: Lin- 

 coln's Birthday. Sunday. February 12: Washington's Birth- 

 day. Wednesday. February 22: Decoration Day. Thursday 

 May 30: Independence Day. Wednesday. July 4; Labor Day 

 !Monday. September 4: Columbus Day. Thursday. October 12 

 Election Day. Tuesday. Xovember 7: Thanksgiving Day 

 Thursday. Xovember 30: Christmas. Monday. December 25 

 Sylvester Evening. End of year. 



In England. May Day. ^lay 1st; Michaelmas. Friday, 

 ;?eptember 29. 



In France. Saturday. July 14. 



A. R. CROOK 



•See article by Oberlin Smith, Pop. ScL Monthly. Dec. 1912. 

 pp. 582-590. 



