Who is this person?

[Susan Higginbotham]

Re.: "Restaurants in the 19th century in the U.S. routinely advertised 'private rooms for ladies' or 'private rooms for ladies and families'" - how many honorable ladies and families would you expect in that environment?

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Plenty. Respectable ladies could, and did, travel without male companions, either out of necessity or for pleasure. I believe that trains also offered some all-ladies cars.