Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was excitement at the Adams school in Quincy yesterday, when the mother of a pupil who had been chastised entered the building and attempted to wreak physical vengeance upon the principal. The woman was with some difficulty quieted...
...reception given by the ladies interested in woman suffrage last evening was fully attended...
...Senate yesterday Mr. Hoar presented a protest from the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts against disfranchising the women of Utah, unless the men of that territory be also disfranchised...
...Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature who has taken care that the nobler part shall not vary too much from the accepted standard for young maidenhood in the nineteenth century, so much alike and so thoroughly "schoolgirlish" are the daughters she has sent us from east and west, from north...
...roomy seats, with heavy and artistic window-curtains to give it an indescribable air of cozy seclusion, must give it an added charm. There is a wonderful taste shown in many of these rooms. The students have wisely avoided lace curtains and all the lighter adornments that require a woman's presence to harmonize. There is a kind of masculine individuality in their house furnishing that indicates the fitness of things. The books and pictures are, some of them, of great value. Although the dark, neutral tints of walls and carpets are general, yet they are not afraid...