Life — September 2, 1909 — page 42: what you’re looking at

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Our cor- respondents ask: ‘ Are we not again far enough advanced beyond the times of 1582 to adopt cer- tain other changes?’’ And they offer a calendar which divides the 52 weeks of the year into 13 months, each having exactly 28 days. The first of January and the first of every one of the twelve succeeding months fall on a Sunday, and the 28th or last day of each month, therefore, falls on a Saturday. The obvious advantage of this arrangement is that, since each day of the week must be one of four numbers out of the 28 (Sunday for any month of the year being cither the ist, 8th, 15th, or 22nd, Tuesday either the 3rd, roth, 17th, or 24th, &.), if one knows the day of the week, it is possible to find the day of the month quickly and without reference to a calendar. The additional month necessary under this ystem is named by its sponsors “ Vincent ""; and it is placed in the calendar between June and Thirteen months of 28 days each, however, give a total of only 364 days for the year, and, to accommodate the odd day, it is proposed that between Saturday, the last day of December, and Sunday, the first day of January, there should be a day to be known as “Anno Day.” It is not recognized as a calendar day, and, beyond its name, has no other distinction to separate it from the last day of December. Any labor done on Anno Day would have to be a matter of spe- cial contract or agreement. No interest or rental will accrue upon that day, and for all such pur- poses it would be considered a part of Saturday December 28th. Leap year is provided for by an extra day between Saturday, Vincent 14th, and Sunday, Vincent 1sth. This would be known “Mid-Anno Day"? and it would be treated in all respects similarly to Anno Day. Although there can be no question of the sim- plicity and convenience of the proposed calendar, in respect of any prospect of its immediate and world-wide adoption we fear it must be classed with those two other great desirables, the “metric system "’ and the “longer daylight day.”” We are not more firmly convinced of the ad- vantages of this and those propositions for simplifying and rendering casier and more pleasant the round of daily life and its duties than we are that to bring about. these suggested improvements will take many years of arduous and persistent tion.—Scientific Americ Latest Books The Long Gallery, by Eva Lathbury. & Co. $1.50. 7 (Henry Holt 1, by Alice Duer Miller. (Henry Hot y Place, by Walter P. Eaton ani Elise (Henry Holt & Co. $1.23.) , by Lottie Blair Parker. (Henry Ifolt § The Open Shop, by Clarence S. Darrow. (Same Bloch.” 10 cents.) The Crisis, by Robert Hunter, 10 cents The Wretches of Povertyville, by 1. L. M.D. (Jos. J. Lanzit.) 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