Wait, smoking?

November 13, 1932 - Alex, Lloyd and Mayme came at 7:30.  I hadn't expected them until 9:30.  We left Winside about 9:00.  Had a flat tire before we got to Wayne.  We had dinner at Correctionville, Iowa.  We went on to Cushing, which is about 40 miles east of Sioux City.  Lloyd went to see about basing a filling station there.  We drove around in S.C. on our way home.  Got to Walkers in time for supper, went to church in eve.  Louis M. took me home.  [There is a small newspaper clipping taped to the diary page.  Here it is, misspellings and all:  Misses Marion Anderson and Mayme Hall, Allen Brune and Lloyd Voss motored to Cushing, Ia., Sunday on business.]
November 14, 1932 - Rather chilly in the school house this morning.  Kids playing in sand table all the time.  The 5 & 6 Reading Class is going to start making Robinson Crusoe's home in connection with the story.  Mike went back to P. Schurich's today.  Listed to the radio this evening.
November 15, 1932 - Got a ride to school with Mr. Walker.  We kids went to Nurnbergs tonite to the shower for Bob and Louise.  In the mock wedding Charlotte was the preacher; Evie, bridesmaid; Helen, best man; Mote, groom; Minnie, ring bearer; George and Arnold N., train bearers; myself, bride.  They danced, played cards and smoked!  I had quite a good time.

I see with her exclamation point that Grandma was as horrified by the smoking as I was!  (Well, maybe she wasn't, but she did use that particular punctuation for one reason or another.)

I never had to, nor voluntarily read Robinson Crusoe.  I am thinking I probably should, right after A Lantern in Her Hand.

I haven't heard of a mock wedding at a shower, but it makes some sense.  I understand that back in that time, couples generally didn't plan a big to-do in advance.  They went and quietly got married with their witnesses in tow and then had showers and celebrations with family later.  So, since most everyone missed the ceremony, perhaps the mock wedding was part of how they did things then.  I can see where it would be pretty fun.