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month each year, by the variable recur- 

 rence of school terms, election dates, etc 

 If the German reformers agree among 

 themselves and then bring the rest of the 

 civilized world to their way of thinlting ail 

 these difficulties will vanish. 



Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 

 geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 

 that body take action on such a reform, and 

 the mathematicians are busy all over Ger- 

 )r effecting the desired 

 von Hesse-Wartegg, in 

 ksscitung, proposes to 

 y zero (0), which will 

 iys 364 in number and 

 h the same day of the 

 Jalculators do substan- 

 S, but dispose in vari- 

 I additional uncounted 

 with the leap years. 

 onismus, suggests that 

 iwed to accumulate for 

 nd then be disposed of 

 ap-week." She would 

 motion with 1911, thus 

 ars 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

 ; the Sunday as Herr 

 proposes, would give 

 . and October thirty- 

 other months thirty; 

 ^pril 14, as Easter; 

 lurth Tuesday of De- 

 fer the 29th of No- 

 , April, July, and Oc- 

 3ay ; February, May, 

 on Thursday; March. 

 December on Satur- 



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ler the standing still 

 ■ week every twenty- 

 t occasion more con- 

 ent arrangement. A 

 iplishes all that she 

 ad would promise to 

 culty, could be con- 

 ipportion the months 

 proposes, then begin 

 ss in on Sunday, as 

 28, etc.— but leave an 



December and Jan- 

 rs another between 

 f call the extra days 

 eap Year's Day, and 

 lately without num- 

 of each quarter be- 

 econd with Wednes- 



Friday. 

 ly like this has met 

 is possibly the cal- 



' Tbmplb House. 

 tober 22. 



and by the railways as an effective means 

 of the intensive development of the coun- 

 try they serve. J. R. WiLso: 

 Portland, Ore, Octaljor 29. 



CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 

 To THE Editor op The Nation: 



Sir: We have all been confused by the 

 appearance of Christmas on a different 

 week-day each year, by the coming of 

 Thanksgiving on a difterent day of the 



