St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-14
DIVIDING TIE YEAR.
A New Scheme Being Evolve d
Which Will Make the Year An-
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A New Scheme Being Evolved
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pear More Evenly and Eenefit
Everybody.
New York Recorder
Gen. Won Sichart in M ayence, who is
q personal friend of the German en-
peror, and is said to hav e the kaiser's
backing in his enterprise, is agtatlng
the movement for new division of the
years calendar.
The general prOnounces it "foolish
and unbuslnesSlike that seven months
in the year have thirty-one days, four
months thirty days, and one month
twenty-eight days or twenty-nine days
respectively"
lie says lit causes much confusion,
and it is entirely unreasonable that
certain date should advance with every
year one day, and with every leap year
TWO days.
Gould it not be so arranged that
those days were fixed on certain dates
once for alp" asks the general, and
continues:
Zone year we celebrate Easter in the
middle of March; i'll another year we
celebrate it in the m iddle of April.
There are hundreds and thousands of peo-
pie in every city in the world who divide
their business year according to the
date Easter may fall on.
sis 1t not unreasonable that their
years division should be different one
with every twelve months? BY the
same, unreasonable reckoning, the
schooling seasons are regulated. In
one year the child has a months time
longer for preparation than in another.
''This may be greatly to the disadvan-
tage of a child that is supposed to pass
his or her examination within a stipu-
lated period, not certain number OF
months or weeks.
''In some parts OF the world, in Ger
many, for instance. five holidays occur
successfully within ten ordinary days
holidays does not chance to fall on
Sunday.
''All this proves that the modern
division of the year does no longer fill
the requirements of busy world. This
is my proposition for radical change:
|, "FirSt-The year is to be divided into
four seasons, the first three seasons to
have 81 days, the first month in each
season to contain 81, the other two
months to contain 30 days. The fourth
season shall contain % days, and in leap
years the second season shall also con-
tain go days. These two extra days
shall be added to the last day of each
season, December and June, respect
lively.
''Second- first day of each sea
son, |. e., the LIST of January, the 1St of
April, the 1st of July and the 1st OF Oc-
tober, shall always fall Oh a Sunday.
By this arrangement the first day of
IF
a " Wednesday, the first day OF each
third month of season falls on Fri
day. This makes Dec. 80 and June 30
fall on Saturday every year in CELL
fury. The 31st day of December in each
year and the 3lst day of June in each
| leap year are to be called extra days
and leap days, respectively: they are to
| be added to the weeks closing on the
| 30tL of December and the 30th of June
as an eighth day.
"Third-Easter shall always fall on
| the 1st of April, Whitsuntide OH the
10Th of May. They are to be fixtures
on those dates. Christmas is to be fixed
| forever to fall on Dec. "a.
Fourth The beginning of the year,
! Jan. 1, is to be dated back eleven days,
| that is, it is to fall on the shortest day
| of the year. By this arrangement the
| beginning of spring, or the first day OF
| spring, occurs simultaneously with the
1st day of April. the first day of sum-
| mer falls on July l, and the beginning
ofaautumn OH Oct. |.
t'Fifth-In order to do away with the
eleven days the nine extra days and
the two leap days are to be omitted in
the first nine years after the adoption
of.the new calendar. The new calen-
daIr is to begin with the year 1901"