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.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Monday, July 6, 1925

Monday, July 6, 1925
Hot

Albert still feverish and sick. I washed early and Mable came to try my dress on me. My feet swelled till I could hardly stand. Ned cries after me so these days. He won’t let me out of his sight. He won’t play except at my heels and he hugs that blanket till he is all broken out with the heat. He is so trying.

(Remember, Grandma is pregnant, which is probably why she was getting a new dress and why her feet swelled up if she stood a lot. I can only imagine how trying it must have been to have no air condititioning and sick kids, with no medicine to take for whatever they had. By the way, most of us who read this diary regulary assume that Albert had mono which is why he was sick for so long.)