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.

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Wednesday, May 27, 1925

Wednesday, May 27, 1925
Cool

But our fire went out and for lack of coke I could not kindle it. It got warm and pleasant in the sun later so I turned the boys out doors to play and got along very nicely myself.

(Sounds like they had another cool night, after two previous nights of frost. Hopefully, they didn't need any heat after this, until they got a load of coke delivered in the fall. It must have been some chore to keep the furnace going all through the winter, making sure that a fire was going all of the time. And how did they regulate how much heat they got?)