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, April 21, 2007

Wednesday, April 21, 1926

Wednesday, April 21, 1926
Fair and warm

Spring at last. The first day I could dress the baby without putting on an extra little sack around her shoulders. I thought I would get some sewing done today, but had to mend first as usual and that took all day. Ned tore his best and only wool pants so if it doesn’t get warm by Sunday, we will have to stay home again and last Sunday he said when the boys left that he wanted to go to Sunday school, too and I told him we would next time. He is old enough to start regularly now, and get used to playing with other children.

(I feel the same way in 2007, "spring at last". I thought it would never get here!)