Fri. Snowed
Went to May Randell's and Tizah Slack's ou bij [?] for Altrurian. Went home in P.M. May came over after school. Went to Altrurian at Mrs. Nudd's in Eve.
Note: Is that a mysterious way of saying "bijou"
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Transcription of a 1915 - 1919 diary written by my husband's grandmother Ada May (Grimshaw) Illingworth who lived in Springfield, Vermont.
Ada May
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It sounds like they were either reading the books by Wm. Dean Howells about Altruria, or hearing lectures by someone talking about the actual Altruria in California. A Traveler from Altruria is a novel like Tappan Wright's Islandia. It compares American standards of work ethic, politeness and daily living to those of a faraway island utopia called Altruria. There are several sequels. The real Altruria was a community founded by a Unitarian minister in 1894 based on the books.
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