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.

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Wednesday, June 8, 1927

Wednesday, June 8, 1927
Fair –warm

Ironed. Mama came over. Dale threw his baseball through the front door glass this AM so there is another expense. Will we never get ahead!

(This isn't the first time Grandma wrote about this door glass being broken. Aunt Marjorie wrote that it got broken a lot. When we used to visit Grandma, she still had a glass front door, with sheer drapes on it, that she would peer through when we arrived and rang the doorbell.)

1 comment:

Sherry at the Zoo9:37 PM, June 08, 2008
Didn't Dale have a paper route? I think I would have had him paying for at least part of that broken window.....
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