Our great-grandmother was an amazing woman. And here, one hundred years later, we have her diary.
Take a trip to the past through the eyes of a teen-age girl, and marvel at how the world has changed -
and the many ways it has not.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

August 1, 1912 - Thursday



1. Went in swimming in morning. Loafed and read nearly all PM. Miss Murray was in bathing with us and I held her chin up while she tried to swim. She got along beautifully till I thought I’d see if she could swim without help. I accordingly let go of her chin, and this is what happened-:


Mr. C. was on the beach, too. In the afternoon, as I’ve mentioned before, I loafed and read, but later (about 530 by our nutty clock) I went for a walk on the beach. Got a box of Nabiscos and settled down on the rocks to eat them. As n I was walking back I spied a lady on the board-walk who was waving wildly to me. (The lady was waving, not the board-walk.) It was Muz trying to get me to come home. It seems that our clock had had another fit and we were just in time for supper instead of having a half-hour to kill. Got a postal from Howard Dibble. Went with Olive Cobby to see the fireworks. Got some very ice pop-corn. Was so dead sleepy that I went to sleep on the outside of the bed in my wrapper with my head nesting in the folds of the nightie which I could not find and my hair stringing all over the pillow. Clasped to my heart was the comb I’d taken to bed to comb my hair with. Muz got me to bed when she reached home from her picnic.


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