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.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Friday, June 5, 1925

Friday, June 5, 1925

Left the poultice off of Albert this AM. Gilbert is better and Ned slept late, so I washed. The dry heat wave is killing lots of people in the U.S.A. Poor little Ned. Sick and feverish yet although some better, so tottery he can’t walk across the room, but he hadn’t even tried before today.

(Heat wave? 1925 seems to have had its share of weather events. There was the tri-state tornado in March, which I think is still the deadliest on record, a mini heat wave at the end of April that set records for Indianapolis that are still standing, and then a frost in late May that damaged vegetable crops. Now a heat wave in June?

Seemed like everyone was a little better on this day, though not quite all 100 percent yet. But in 1925, what medicine did they have a for a 'quick fix'? They just had to ride these illnesses out with poultices and rest and hope for the best.)