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, September 17, 2007

Friday, September 17, 1926

Friday, September 17, 1926
Fair and warm

Such a day! Ned was so restless and feverish from 1:30 last night and still had such a diarrhea with bloody stools. He cried for me to hold him all day and Marjorie who is about to get two “butter teeth” through would cry when I took him. She didn’t sleep much but wanted to be nursed so much of the time. Mama came over and helped me or I never would have got through. Finally washed out their clothes but that’s all. Marjorie is about as near well as she will be till she’s through teething I imagine. A little Dickens she is. But pour little Ned, so sick!!

(With Ned so sick, perhaps his was food poisoning?)

1 comment:

Anonymous7:35 AM, September 17, 2007
Butter teeth? Must be the front teeth. Ned must definitely have had something serious to have bloody stools
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