A Quote From The Birthday Girl: "Because This Was Sunday"

 

"Even the street, the sunshine, 

the very air had a special Sunday quality.

Rose Wilder Lane

(December 5, 1886-October 30,1968)

American journalist, travel writer,
novelist, political theorist.

We walked differently on Sundays,

 with greater propriety and stateliness.

Greetings were more formal, more subdued, 

voices more meticulously polite.

Everything was so smooth, bland, polished.  

And genuinely so, because this was Sunday.

In church the rustling and the stillness alike

pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best.

Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven,

and we were in our Sunday clothes."

"Old Home Town"
(1935)
Rose Wilder Lane