Ruth Campbell Smith 1925-27 Diaries

My grandmother, Ruth Campbell Smith (1892 - 1972) kept a diary for many years. I am posting her entries from 1925 - 1927 in this blog. Her family included sons Dale (1916 - 2004), Dick (1918 - 1971), Albert (1920 - 1979), and Ned (1923 - 1976), and later daughters Marjorie (1925 - 2010) and Eleanor (1929 - 2011). Her husband was Gilbert (1889 - 1937) and they lived in Indianapolis. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of what it was like to be a housewife and mother in the 1920's.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Friday, March 13, 1925

Friday, March 13, 1925

A day that has even less to show for it than yesterday. We had planned to go to the show this evening to see Douglas Fairbanks in “When the Clouds Roll By”. We hadn’t counted on rain and didn’t know it was raining hard till we were out. It just poured all evening. Gilbert was about sick with a cold and went to bed at 7:30 and forgot to shut off the furnace. It was 105 when we got home and I had to stay up.

(No TV in 1925 to check the Weather Channel to find out what weather is approaching. You might go out and all is fine and then suddenly the weather changes and you are out in the rain. Happens all the time in Indiana. Also, a snippet more info about the furnace... manually controlled? Sounds like it! No thermostat to control it!)