Friday, May 22, 1925
Hot
Scrubbed and cleaned all AM and at noon when the vegetable man came I bought 6 big pineapples and canned them. I got 6 pints out of them. Sat by the couch and told stories to Albert and kept hot cloths on his neck while I peeled them. Got an awful headache from the heat but took the two primary boys to an entertainment their department gave at Sunday school gym.
(I was thinking about the pineapple, and wondered if it was grown in Hawaii or south Florida or someplace in Central America. In 1925, it would have take a slow trip from someplace to Indianapolis by boat and/or train, I would guess. I wonder what condition it arrived in and if we saw fruit in that same condition today, would we have bought any? I've never canned pineapple, has anyone?
Albert was still sick and seemed to still require a lot of Grandma's attention. The primary symptom she described several times was the swollen gland. What could he have had?
Note it was a hot day!)
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An ad for wholesale fruits and vegetables in a May 1924 Indianapolis Star offers pineapples from Cuba for $5-$7 per box. They also have strawberries from Tennessee, lemons and oranges from California, three kinds of lettuce (hothouse leaf, California iceberg, and Louisiana), and homegrown asparagus, spinach, and beets. Plus lots of other fruits and vegetable from peas and potatoes to mangoes and cocoauts.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Albert had the mumps!
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