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Index 



Country Life Commission, 42 f., 

 148. 



Country mother, as teacher, 268 ; 

 report of Country Life Commis- 

 sion, 42 ; conservation of her 

 energies, 44 ff. ; conspiring with 

 the children, 51 f. 



Country school, to be redirected, 

 152 ff. 



Crying, good for infants, 14. 



Dance, usually degrading, 164; 

 hard to control, 211 f. 



Department of Agriculture, 148. 



Dickens, Professor Albert, 110 f. 



Disease, relation to habit, 3 ; avoid- 

 ance of by care, 3. 



Domestic economy, for girls, 298 f . ; 

 in the rural school, 122. 



Exhibitions, by rural Y.M.C.A., 

 139 f. 



Fairchild, Supt. E. T., 108 f., 118. 

 Farm barn, not to be better than 



the dwelling, 62. 

 Farmer's Voice, 60, 73. 

 Farm girls, danger of overworking, 



182 f. ; working in the field, 188 ; 



sometimes misjudged, 190 f. ; 



work schedule difficult to make, 



191 ; and self-supremacy, 192 f. ; 



social companions for, 201. 

 Fear, nature and purpose of, 18, 19. 

 Federation for country life in 



Illinois, 161 f. 



Good health, fundamental to devel- 

 opment, 3. 

 Good life, definition, 2. 



Hall, Dr. G. Stanley, 309. 

 Happiness, a part of the good life, 



6 ; how obtained, 6. 

 High school, rural provisions for, 



124 f. 

 Holton, Professor E. L. on Boy 



Scouts, 165. 

 Home conveniences, necessity for 



farm women, 47. 



Home life education, 270. 



Home sanitation, in the rural 



school, 122. 



"Homing" instinct, 22. 

 House help, training the children 



for, 49. 

 Human stock, mostly sound, 7, 8 ; 



potentially good, 9. 

 Humble parentage and leadership, 9. 



Instincts, of children to be studied, 

 310 ; two are fundamental, 12 ; 

 related to impulse, 14 ; for home 

 life, 23 ; for business, 24. 



James, Professor William, 300. 



Kansas, Rural Boy Scouts in, 166 

 ff. ; a boy genius of, 227. 



Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 165. 



Kirk, President John R., quoted, 

 112 f. 



Leadership, of farmer and wife, 

 146 ff. ; preparation for, 148 ; 

 in Y.M.C.A., 133 f. 



Library, for neighborhood in farm 

 home, 155. 



Literary Digest, 73. 



Literature, purpose of in country 

 home, 69 f . ; best adapted to the 

 child, 71, 72; types of, 72 f . ; 

 on child-rearing, 79. 



Marriage, planning for the daugh- 

 ter's, 291 f. ; to be studied, 300 ff. 

 training the girl for, 20, 21. 



McNutt, Rev. M. B., and his work, 

 86, 87 ; church built by, 87. 



Mendel's law, and human inherit- 

 ance, 8. 



Minister, of city should preach 

 in the country, 85; a country 

 type, 86 ff. 



Moral strength, an aim in character- 

 building, 4 ; acquired through 

 trial and error, 4. 



Mothers' club, organization of, 

 160 f. 



