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important to know whether the bank la that particular city will be open thst day. Does any one around the Place know whether January 5 is 8 bank holiday in Picking or Athens or Cape Town! Usually no one does. It's hard enough to keep tabs on the 54 holidays rampant In these United States. It therefore becomes neces-l saSy te send an expensive cablegram to get the information. This sort of thing happens not once, but many times, in every banking house with am extensive foreign business.
 Amerg the holidays established by custom the occasion is generally the of an important political sxent CT the birthday of national hero. Such holidays are therefore To- cal. while church holidays are for the most part general The former class; prevails in the newer and more dem ocratte- countries. while the older ones conf1ne themselves largely to the church lasts and festivals
 Where HoiLdaysa Are Thieieest !
 Contrary to the popular notion. thel new 'dem0cEacies of the west enjoy al greater number of holidays than their sister nations of the eastern hemi-i sphere. Of the 97 nations or depend enaies listed Brazil leads, with 84I solidays. The United States with 54, Is q close second, although she. unlike Brazil, practically Ignores the church days Another popular delu- sion is shattered when VIC find that Trance, has only I6 formally observed days and Italy, only 23. We had sup posed the Latins always outdid us in this particular. Among the other bel hgerents Germany, it is presumed, xwilf observe 20 days next year, Great Britain 1e Japan 15 and Russia IT.. local holidays ordinarily observed have been abandoned during the war.
 The study of holidays is fascinat- ing to the historian. Those of our own country offer 8 particularly rich field. If one knew the meaning of all the half a hundred days celebrated in the United States, with the collateral events connected with each, he would be well versed in the nations history.
 One of the first surprises in store ! for such a student is to learn that the United States has no national holi- day. The reader will at once think of Fourth of July and of the Presi- dents Thanksgiving proclamation. But not even these are national. Acts of Congress and Presidents pro- nouneements in this respect apply only to the District of Columbia and 1 the territories. The states usually : follow suit, but as a matter Of cus- tom only and not of law. Here Is, a chance to win some bets from your friends.
 i Ameriea's Red Letter Days.
 ! American local holidays are rich In historical significance. Of such are /! the commemorations of Bunker Hill and Bennington and New Orleans and San Jacinto; the all but forgotten Fast Day of New England, still sur
 viving in New Hampshire; Patriots
 Day in Maine and Old Defenders Day
 in Baltimore, Pioneer Day in Idaho
 and the various Admission Days pop
 ular with other Western states, Con
 federate Memorial Day in the South
 together with the birthdays of Let
 and other heroes of the Confederacy.
 Two states have Independence Day:
 of their own. Texas observes her sep
 aration from Mexico on March
 North Carolina commentaries thu
 Halifax independence resolutions oI
 April 12 and the Mecklenburg decla
 ration on May 20.
 It remains for Frederick county
 Md., to celebrate all alone the repu
 diation of the stamp act. one of tn
 most local celebrations of an impor
 tant national event on record.
 Among the favorite months for heI l idays the world over November leads