The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-05

ever they saw a woman approaching.
 The solar year-the period of time in which the earth makes one revo1u- ton in it's orbit about the sun-is S65 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long. Caesar gave the year exactly 365 days, without the extra hours, minutes and seconds. and as a result he lost a, day every four years. So he tacked one on in February every four years to make things come out even. February, as he made it, had thirty days in leap years and twenty nine days in common years; while July had thirty-one and August thirty. Augustus Caesar, after whom August was named, became peeved because July-named after Julius Caesar-had more days than August. He couldn't stand for favoritism of that sort, so he chopped one day from February and added one to August. thus '9put- teng one over" on Julius. Thus it hap pens that February has twenty-nine days this year, instead of thirty.
 Julius system worked like a charm for a while. Then it was discovered that the world was gaining time uns- der it, that the year was about ] 1 minutes too long. The equinox, which came on March 25, under the Julian calendar when it was first invented, had moved backward to March 21 in the year 325 and to March II in the year 1582. Something had to be done; it was a shame to gain all that time in the course of 1 ,500 yearS,f and so Pope Gregory XIII ordered ten days taken from the year and decreed that there should be no leap year in any centenary year (that year beginning a century) except in those which were multiples of 400. That was why we did not have a leap-year in 19o0 and that is why we-or someone will have one in 2,00O.
 crod now, the common year exceeds the solar year by twenty-six seconds, and along about the year 3323 the world will find that it has an extra day on it's hands, and nothing to do with it. It will have to be gotten rio Of in some way; it can't be left kicking around the house. One suggestion made by scientists is that the year 4,Oo0 and all multiples of it be made ordinary years, Instead of leap years, in order to lose the troublesome day. It is a very vital question, but some how nobody seems to be much inter- ested in it to-day. There is/ a start ling lack of interest in the~e really vii tfs1 things, it seems, but this particu- lar one may be taken up after the war is over.
 But be that as it may, as the Hah- vahd reporter says, the fact remains that danger turks in this year 1916 to all who would be free from millinery bills, rules against smoking, sewing machines in a den, ante-br real<fast and pest dinner curtain lectures and otn- CT joys of married life. The dear things, whether they be aged 40, with darling little curls. or aget! 20 with deceptive smiles, are even now form ing for the attack and laying their plans and nets ('"The Courant," how ever. will continue to print daily au- thorized announcements of engage ments.)
 Hints To Bachelors.
 Just at present health officials are telling what to do to down the grip and the pessimistic benedict, believ- ing that matrimony is equally to be summed, gives the following hints to bachelors, which are to be taken abe fore or after meals, or as frequently as expediency and safety first" dI rect:
 Do not accept invitations from hcz