Susan's Opinion of Daylight Savings Time
From Rilla of Ingleside, by L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapter 30, “The Turning of the Tide”:
Susan was very sorrowful when she saw the beautiful old lawn of Ingleside ploughed up that spring and planted with potatoes. Yet she made no protest, even when her beloved peony bed was sacrificed. But when the Government passed the Daylight Saving law Susan balked. There was a Higher Power than the Union Government, to which Susan owed allegiance.
“Do you think it is right to meddle with the arrangements of the Almighty?” she demanded indignantly of the doctor. The doctor, quite unmoved, responded that the law must be observed, and the Ingleside clocks were moved accordingly. But the doctor had no power over Susan’s little alarm.
“I bought that with my own money, Mrs. Dr. dear,” she said firmly, “and it shall go on God’s time and not Borden’s time.”
Susan got up and went to bef by “God’s time,” and regulated her own goings and comings by it. She served the meals, under protest, by Borden’s tim, and she had to go to church by it, which was the crowing injury. But she said her prayers by it; so that there was always a furtive triumph in her eye when she looked at the doctor. She had got the better of him by so much at least.
This is the final book of the Anne series, chronologically, about her family during WWI (the war to end all wars) on the home front. She doesn’t cover the members of the family overseas directly. This book was the first time I realized that the War to End All Wars wasn’t just something people said, but something that people, intelligent people, actually believed it.
And I still cry over the story of Little Dog Friday. 🐶