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.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Sunday, March 22, 1925

Sunday, March 22, 1925
Warm

Gilbert and Dick and Dale went to Sunday school. I got dinner and cleaned up the house. Mama, Papa, Mable, and Winifred came out for dinner. We took pictures in the back yard. Then after dishes were washed we played bridge till 6 o’clock. That was awful late for Mama to stay so I know they enjoyed themselves although Mama was about sick and so chilly we had the house too hot to please her.

(Mable is Grandma's sister-in-law, married to her brother Harry. Winifred is their daughter. I'm not quite sure how someone gets chilly in a house that is too hot, but that's what she writes in her diary.)

1 comment:

Anonymous1:08 PM, July 13, 2016
I'm enjoying this diary immensely. I think in the last line she means that because Mama was about sick and chilly, they turned up the heat to please her but it was too hot for everyone else.
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