Tuesday, November 3, 1925
Warm.
Election day. Had a worse back ache than at any time yet. Lifted Ned last evening and something seemed to give away. So had to take it easy. Mrs. Burns and another lady came in a machine and took me to the polls. It was a lovely Indian summer day. Mrs. Collins came in for a little while.
(So, Grandma’s first day out after having the baby appears to be to go to the polls to vote. I had noted on May 5th that women were given the right to vote in 1920, just 5 years earlier than she wrote this, so I would guess Grandma wasn’t going to miss voting for anything.
Today, people take the right to vote so casually, yet here just two generations back from me, Grandma would remember a time when women couldn’t vote!
I assume Mrs. Collins watched the baby?)
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They used to think women didn't know enough to vote. Women have come a loooong way since then
ReplyDeleteI liked the part about coming "in a machine," which I'm taking to mean an automobile? Great way to get to go vote for the mom.
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