Word: schoolmarms
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...said that the schoolmarm, whose letter we print upon the first page, was so pleased with our Chicago delegation that she changed her day for coming East in order to have the pleasure of returning in their company...
From a Chicago paper is taken the following letter, written by a lady who signs herself "schoolmarm." It will be read with interest by the men who composed the party mentioned below, and, for that matter, by the students of the entire University...
Just before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston...