Evening star., 1946-01-10
This and That
By Charles E. Tracevell.

1t was just little calendar, about
inches square, decorated with three
bluebirds, but 1t held all that the
largest and most elaborates ones do.
1t told, in the first place, that there
are but two Fridays the 18th" in 1916,
in September and December.
It showed that July 4 comes on q
Thursday, and Memorial Day likewise
in May.
And Christmas win be on Wednesday,
as most of us realize now, with the last
one SO close, but many will forget just
which day later on.
The only months with five Saturdays
in them are June, August and Novem-
ber, while those with five Mondays are
April, July, September and December.
Months with five Sundays are June,
September and December.
It will be seen that September and
December are banner months in many
ways.
In the year 1947, it is interesting to
note, there will be but one Friday the
18TH" and that in June.
Most people use calendar as many
persons use others: they look at 1t when
they want something from it.
Perhaps we should do better to study
the calendar in advance, and then
maybe we would know what we were
up against
A year seems q long time, and it is
a long time, but those days 60 faster
and faster, the older we get.
When you look over the calendar, 1t
presents a perfect picture Of accom-
plishment.
1t Is easy to see, on leaf I, January,
how much one can get done.
Fortunate Is the person, many will
hold, who is not muddled by thoughts
of horoscopes, but who takes the days
as they come, happily convinced in his
own mind that each day Is as good as
another.
1t must be terrible to feel, upon some
body else's say-so, that one day is good,
and another day is bad.
A better American way to look at the
days is that each one Is what you
make 1t.
That is an ideal, anyway.
Too much looking forward, perhaps,
is bad-for certain temperaments.
The disciplinarian may do well by
taking stock Of the days, determining
what he will do now, and what the
next month, but many will do best by
another attack on time.
This method is simply to let Old Time
roll.
Time will take care Of his days. All
we have to do Is to try to keep up with
him.
The dance of the hours sometimes
seems tiresome and long The beauti-
ful musical composition gives too vivid
a picture.
Often the hours drag terribly.
Persons suffering with insomnia know
how that is. They are fortunate II
they realize that time is, after all, no
matter what the calendar says, relative.
An hour is composed of so minutes,
but those minutes may be conditioned
by our thinking. The person who can
worry. AS to "how not to worry" that
is big question. The childlike mind
will gain the most here.
Just as the days of July do not come
until july so the days of January have
their own places. Too much looking
forward to later days will cause suffer-
ing. Be assured that time does not
stand still. The only static thing about
it is its representation, the calendar,
which, large or small, beautiful or ugly,
is the same at bottom. If we put too
much stress on the pictures that adorn
/ the rows of figures, we stand to lose
sight of a calendars real worth. A
calendar tells you things; and if it tells
you things, it makes no particular diff
ference whether it is large or small,
beautiful or plain. There Is q lesson
in every calendar for us all in our
everyday treatment Of our fellow human
beinRa.