INDEX 



Acquired characters, not trans- 

 missible, 7. 



Agricultural education, money 

 value of, 286. 



Agriculture, as a rural school sub- 

 ject, 120 ff. 



Anger, a healthful instinct, 16; 

 right treatment of, 17 f. 



Aristocracy, fostered in the schools, 

 103, 104. 



Bank account, necessary for boys, 



223 



Bill, Arthur J., 231. 

 Boardman, John R., advocate of 



rural play, 156. 

 Books, for children, how to choose, 



74 ; a selected list, 75 ff . ; on 



child-rearing, 79, 80. 

 Boys, bad companionships for, 



202 f. 



Boy Scouts Movement, 311. 

 Boy Scouts, Professor Helton's 



definition of, 165 ; how to 



organize, 165 f. ; in Kansas, 



166 ff. 



Boys leave the farm, why, 62, 63. 

 Bread-making clubs, 150 f. 

 Bread-winning, cultural, 3. 

 Building site, suited to children, 58. 

 Business career, instinct for, 24. 

 Business, training for farm boy, 



220 ff. ; finding the boy's interest 



in, 221 f . ; dealing fair with the 



boy in, 225. 

 Butterfield, President Kenyon L. 



149, 161. 



Character-building, agencies of, 

 26 ff . ; must go on with schooling, 

 90 f . ; requires religious training, 

 94. 



Chicago Vice Commission, 317. 



Child-rearing, rural, 90 ff. 



Children's hour, recommended for 

 evening, 67. 



Children's room, good illustration 

 of, 64 f. 



Child study, a necessity, 308 ff . 



Cigarettes, law against, in Kansas, 

 318. 



College education, for farm boy, 

 283 f. 



Compulsory education, now gene- 

 ral, 251. 



Consolidation of rural schools, 

 illustrated, 109, 123. 



Cornell University, model rural 

 school, 115 ff. 



Cornell University, 286. 



Corn-plowing, may be divine call- 

 ing, 98. 



Corn-raising clubs, 150 f. 



Corn Sunday, in rural church, 95. 



Country boy, the right schooling 

 for, 250 ff. ; his interest in hu- 

 manity, 259 ; must know cur- 

 rent affairs, 260. 



Country church at Plainfield, 111., 

 87; at Ogden, Kan., 87, 92; 

 Commission management of, 88 ; 

 too narrow, 92 ; as social center, 

 94 ff. ; at Danbury, N. H., 96; 

 at Lincoln, Vt., 96 ; federated 

 society in, 96. 



Country dwelling, its relation to 

 juvenile character, 54 ff. ; plan 

 it for the children, 56, 57. 



Country girl, business training for, 

 255 ff. ; why she leaves home, 

 236 f . ; rules for training in busi- 

 ness, 239; not to be a money- 

 maker, 247 ; earning money in 

 the South, 249 ; schooling for, 

 262 ff. ; to be taught music, 

 265 f . ; vocation for, 290 ff . 



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