The lady from Baltimore wanted to send her son to school. But the good boarding schools were mostly in New England, and she thought that her son was too young to be sent that far from home. Baltimore's public schools "gave off a nauseous odor," in the words of the city's own health commissioner. They were cramped and dingy, had no place where their pupils could play. So Mrs. Francis Carey rounded up a handful of like-minded mothers and they founded a school of their own—the first country day school in the U.S. Last week, the Oilman Country School was...
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