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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 thinking all 

 these difficulties will vanish. 



Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 

 geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 

 take action on such a reform, and 

 naticians are busy all over Ger- 

 1 plans for effecting the desired 

 Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, in 

 ische VolJcszeitung, proposes to 

 5f ear's Day zero (0), which will 

 ;ounted days 364 in number and 

 year with the same day of the 

 .t of the calculators do substan- 

 3ame thing, but dispose in vari- 

 as of the additional uncounted 

 appears with the leap years, 

 man, in Monismus, suggests that 

 lys be allowed to accumulate for 

 It years, and then be disposed of 

 'unted "leap-week." She would 

 endar in motion with 1911, thus 

 iT leap-years 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

 vould omit the Sunday as Herr 

 Wartegg proposes, would give 

 ■pril, July, and October thirty- 

 iach, the other months thirty; 

 Sunday, April 14, as Easter; 

 for the fourth Tuesday of De- 

 anksgiving for the 29th of No- 

 r January, April, July, and Oc- 

 on Monday; February, May. 

 November on Thursday; March, 

 nber, and December on Satur- 



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tful whether the standing still 

 ' ^ idar for a week every twenty- 

 ' V would not occasion more con- 

 tbe present arrangement. A 

 'Cje--^'"^ accomplishes all that she 

 or hers and would promise to 

 less difficulty, could be con- 

 'ollows: Apportion the months 

 Koopman proposes, then begin 

 that comes in on Sunday, as 

 1, 1922, 1928, etc.-but leave an 

 y between December and Jan- 

 I leap-years another between 

 f r. We may call the extra days 

 / Jay and Leap Year's Day, and 

 >--aiem adequately without num- 

 •st month of each quarter be- 

 V- , iday, the second with Wednes- 

 ^ third with Friday. 

 / substantially like this has met 

 ^\ favor and is possibly the cal- 

 uture. 



/ Rot TfflMPLB HousB. 



ermnDy, October 22. fAff^ 



CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 

 To THE Editor of 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 dilTerent day of the 



