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.

Friday, January 04, 2008

Tuesday, January 4, 1927

Tuesday, January 4, 1927
Fair and warm

I might have known a storm would break after yesterday. Everything went wrong including a motor blown out on the washing machine and Ned getting up from his nap feverish.

(Aunt Marjorie wrote, "I wonder why she didn't do the laundry on Monday?" I thought the same thing. It seems like from her diary entries, she always washed clothes on Monday. Maybe she took yesterday "off" because the older boys went back to school.)