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, May 10, 2006

Sunday, May 10, 1925

Sunday, May 10, 1925
Rain

Dale and Dick and I went to Sunday school and church this AM and the two boys took Mama a box of candy this PM as it was Mother’s day. They stayed and played flinch till dusk and we called up and told them to send them home. Gilbert and I had a quiet afternoon and he went to church in the evening to hear Rev. Ben L. Smith as this was his first day as a supply pastor for us.

(Grandma makes no metion that the boys gave her something for Mother's Day, but surely they must have if they took a box of candy to their grandmother. Mother's Day was still a relatively new national holiday at the time, having been established in 1914 to be on the 2nd Sunday of May. I am assuming Albert is still sick and so they took turns staying home with him, which is why Gilbert went to church that evening.

Flinch is a old card game. Check out the details at this site.)

1 comment:

Anonymous10:59 PM, August 25, 2007
My mother still plays Flinch with all her grandchildren. In our family, it's a card game that's still alive and kicking!
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