'6 QJUui^nXILyh^ t2tlL.Cj 



X 



X 



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 

 maticians are busy all over Ger- 

 1 plans for effecting the desired 

 . Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, in 

 ische Yolksscitung, proposes to 

 Year's Day zero (0), which will 

 counted days 364 in number and 

 I year with the same day of the 

 3t of the calculators do substan- 

 same thing, but dispose in vari- 

 'Us of the additional uncounted 

 appears with the leap years, 

 man, in MoiUsmu^, suggests that 

 lys be allowed to accumulate for 

 It years, and then be disposed of 

 Junted "leap-week." She would 

 endar in motion with 1911, thus 

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

 vould omit the Sunday as Herr 

 ■Wartegg proposes, would give 

 pril, July, and October thirty- 

 iaoh. the other months thirty; 

 Sunday. April 14, as Easter; 

 for the fourth Tuesday of De- 

 anksgiving for the 29th of No- 

 5r January, April, July, and Oc- 

 on Monday; February, May. 

 November on Thursday; March, 

 ♦j^mber, and December on Satur- 



)tful whether the standing still 

 idar for a week every twenty- 

 would not occasion more con- 

 the present arrangement. A 

 .ich accomplishes all that she 

 or hers and would promise to 

 1 less difficulty, could be con- 

 Eollows: 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- 

 1 leap-years another between 

 y- We may call the extra days 

 3ay and Leap Year's Day, and 

 hem adequately without num- 

 ■st month of each quarter be- 

 iday, the second with Wednes- 

 third with Friday, 

 iubstantially like this has met 

 favor and is possibly the cal- 

 uture. 



Rot Temple Housb. 

 lermany, October 22. 1^ ff^ 



CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 

 To THE Editor of The Nation: ; 



Sir: We have all been confused by the ■ 

 appearance of Christmas on a different i 

 j week-day each year, by the coming of ■ 

 'Thanksgiving on a different day of the 



