Day By Day (...By Day...By Day...)

More library sale illustrations removed from unknown books.

This time, the illustration style and settings are 1950-ish. But this may have been a reprint: pages are completely clean and unyellowed, plus floral borders have the look of something added later.




Thinking of these, as a new year at the office looms tomorrow...

All my days are pretty much spoken for—though I am hardly as cheerful about my tasks as the little housefrau in training is about hers.

It happens that a day of rest is missing from my set—though I assumed that too would involve duty.

I still don't know what book these are from, but I've found someone with the same illustrations, used this way.

Not my taste; I prefer the unadorned versions, for the bright colors, illustration style and household object details (if not for the stereotypical content).

But now I know the last rhyme—

Sunday
From all tasks we're free
After church we have our tea

This is a cluttered and even more sentimentalized use of the illustration than the original, but here's Sunday—if without good detail (or a decent look at the tea set)—