month each year, by the variable recur- 

 rence of school terms, election dates etc 

 I£ the German reformers agree among 

 ° themselves and then bring the rest of the 

 the l'""'^^"^ ^"'■l'' t° 'heir way of thinking, all 

 "^^e these difficulties will vanish, 

 om! ^"^"^^^^ Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 



frTmifr'l'"'"'''^"'' """^ ^^""'^''^ demanded that 

 froinj that body take action on such a reform, and 



- the mathematici 



f( 



H 



3p 



3 are busy all over Gei 

 " effecting the desired 

 on Hesse-Wartegg, in 

 ■sseitung, proposes to 

 zero (0), which will 

 rs 364 in number and 

 the same day of the 

 ilculators do substau- 

 , but dispose in vari- 

 additional uncounted 

 with the leap years. 

 mismus, suggests that 

 red to accumulate for 

 Id then be disposed of 

 .p-week." She would 

 lotion with 19H, thus 

 rs 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

 the Sunday as Herr 

 iroposes, would give 

 and October thirty- 

 >ther mouths thirty; 

 Pril 14, as Easter; 

 irth Tuesday of De- 

 fer the 29th of No- 

 April, July, and Oc- 

 ay; February, May, 

 on Thursday; March. 

 December on Satur- 



er the standing still 

 week every twenty- 

 occasion more con- 

 •nt arrangement. A 

 plishes all that she 

 a would promise to 

 ^ulty, could be con- 

 pportion the months 

 Proposes, then begin 

 s in on Sunday, as 

 8, etc. — but leave an 

 December and Jan- 

 's another between 

 call the extra days 

 ap Year's Day, and 

 ately without num- 

 Jf each quarter be- 

 econd with Wednes- 

 Friday. 



y like this has met 

 is possibly the cal- 



TBMPLH HO0SB. 

 ober 22. /^/(p 



and by the railways as an effective 

 of the intensive development of the con 

 try they serve. J. R. Wilson. 



Portlana. Ore., OctolpLM- 29. 



CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 

 To THE Editor op The Nation: 

 Sir : We have all been contused by the 

 I appearance of Christmas on a different 

 I week-day each year, by the coming of 

 Thanksgiving on a difterent day of the 



