Diary of Linnea Gord, Nineteen-Year-Old Piano Accompanist, Finland, July 1st and 2nd 1930

TUESDAY, JULY 1ST, 1930    Today was rather a warm day, and we sat in the shade of the house and embroidered.  In the afternoon we worked for a while in the factory.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND, 1930  This afternoon Auntie went to a funeral.  It was quite interesting to watch the procession go by.  There were first around ten people walking (almost everyone was dressed in black).  Then came the hearse (drawn by horses) and after that about fourteen two-wheeled carts drawn by horses, two automobiles and twenty-four bicycles.  Before the funeral, everyone goes to the house of the deceased's relatives and has coffee.  After the services there is more coffee, then dinner and usually a few hours after dinner they have more coffee.  Some funeral!

Instead of wearing ourselves out at a funeral (although we were invited to attend) Olga, Gustaf Lunnaba and I went swimming in the river.  The water is brown-colored like iron and the mud is about six inches deep on the bottom.  But, oh! what fun we had.  The water, however, is colder in the afternoon that it is in the evening.  We usually go in swimming in the evening after the boys are through with their work.

That evening we all played Touring and acted silly, as usual.  "We made the old kitchen ring with our laughter".  I forget what we were laughing about--some jokes or other.