The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

4 boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark;
i When embark.
The flood may bear me far.
! nope to see my Pilot face to face
I When have crost the bar.
i Alfred Tennyson
Proposed New Calendar
| We have received from San Fran
| cisco copy of q proposed calendar
whose aim is to avoid the ac-
knowledged drawbacks of the
Gregorian calendar by substituting
quirements of our day-by-day life
Although the Gregorian calendar
dates from the year 1882, long before
that many and various improvements
dividing the 365 days of the years
into weeks and months Our cor
| respondents ask: ''Are we not again
far enough advanced beyond the
times of 1882 to adopt certain other
| changes?' And they offer a calen-
dar which divides the So weeks of
the year into 10 months, each hav-
| ing exactly % days. The first of
January and the first of every one of
the IL 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
any month Of the year being either
the list. 8th. 18th. or 22d: Tuesday
either the Sd. 10th. 18th. or gath.
etc.), if one knows the day of the
week, it is possible 10 ind the day
of the month quickly and without
reference to a calendar.
The additional month necessary
under this system is named by its
sponsors Vincent" and it is placed
in the calendar between June and
July.
Thirteen months of % days each,
however, give a total of only 364 days
odd day 1t is proposed that between
Saturday, the last day of December,
and Sunday, the first day of January,
there should be day to be known as
"Anno day" 1t is not recognized as
a calendar day, and, beyond its name,
has no other distinction to separate 1T
from the last day of December. Any
labor done on Ammo day would have
to be a matter of special contract or
agreement. No interest or rental will
accrue upon that day. and for all
such purposes it would be considered
part of Saturday, December 20.
Leap year is provided for by an ex-
ira day between Saturday, Vincent IA,
and Sunday, Vincent Is. This would
be known as "Mid-Anno day." and 1t
would be treated in all respects
similarly to Ammo Day.
Although there can be no question
of the simplicity and convenience of
the proposed calendar. in respect to
any prospect of its immediate and
worldwide adoption we fear 1t must
be classed with those two other great
the longer daylight day" We are
not more firmly convinced Of the adj
vantages of this and those |
propositions for simplifying and rem
round of daily life and its duties than /
we are that to bring about these sug-
gested improvements will take many
wears of arduous and persistent agita-
tion.-Scientific American.
Tourist Bromidioms.
A .statistician who recently returned
from a trip to British columbia is
willing to affirm that he heard people
ask:
GLOW cold does it get here in the
winter?" 2,133 times.
'fWhat is the height of that noun
tain?" 796 times.
"How far away do you suppose that
"Is this the Medicine Hat where the
weather comes from?'' LAP times
How far do you suppose it is over
to where that man is plowing?" 1881
"Are there any trout in that
stream?" 1921 times.
''Do the bears ever come down to
the railroad?" 944 times.
'eWhere do we change time again."
'sWhy is it that it doesn't get dark
here until nearly 10 o'clock" $3.50
times.
HAS anybody ever climbed to the
top of that mountain" 2,246 times.
"Are these the Rockies or the Sell
xirks?" 9,712 times.
wouldn't it be great if we could
have one of these mountains set down
IN the prairie back of Chicago?" 562
Record-Herald.
Munich Taking to Milk Drinking.
Patriotic Munich citizens are great
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