THE GREAL CALENDARS.
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into thirteen months. The first twelve months to contain twenty-eight days each, whilst the thirteenth would have twenty-nine days, except in leap year, when there would be thirty days. It is claimed for this calendar that it would be exceedingly practical and of undoubted value in the great commercial world. For instance, each month being composed of four weeks, the days of each week would always fall on the same dates of the months. Thus, if the 1st of January was a Monday, it would follow that the 1st, the 8th, the 15th, and 22nd of February, and the following months, would also be a Monday. And so on with Tuesday, which would fall on the 2nd, the 9th, the 16th, and 23rd throughout the year.[1]
- ↑ The American originators of this scheme intend to submit same to an International Congress at the Paris Exhibition in 1900. Doubtless these gentlemen were aware of the S.T. Report of 1888, which mentions the difficulties of the earliest chronology how 'uncertainty grows from years into decades, and from decades into centuries, until, in the earliest existing traditions it becomes supreme."
