Live-forever, as playthings, 388; folk names of, 389; ink from, 399. Livingstone, John, wife of, 47. Livingstone, John L., wife of, 46. Livingstone, William, skates of, 372. Lloyd, Joseph, school-feast of, 77. Locke, popularity of, 24; on children's books, 264; good sense of, 25; advanced thought of, 25-26; on bathing, 25; on diet, 26; quoted, 117, 133; on learning letters, 182. London, letter to Bishop of, 66. _Looking Glass for Children_, 251 _et seq._ _Looking Glass for the Mind_, 292 _et seq._ Lord, Mary, portrait, 52-53. Lotteries, to support schools, 68. Lovell, Master, 197. Lybbet, 196. Lynde, Dorothy, sampler of, 333. _Lytill Children's Lytill Boke_, 215. Madison, Dolly, 57. Maine, ink made in, 154. Majority, age of, 190. Mallow cheeses, 387. Maple, bark used for ink, 155; sugar from, 311. Maps, lack of, 78. Mara, the name, 14. Marbles, 374-375. Marie Antoinette, child's dress, 62. Marriages of children, 186 _et seq._ Martin, G. W., quoted, 122. Marvel-of-Peru, wreaths of, 394. Masks, 56; of linen, 57. Massachusetts, school laws of, 64, 67-68, 70; ink made in, 154; schools in, 64, 68. Mather, Cotton, quoted, 12, 67, 131, 134, 172, 223, 225, 236; family of, 12; character of, 209, 233-234; book by, 250. Mather, Increase, as school committee, 67; quoted, 109. Mather, Nathaniel, 239, 254. Mather, Samuel, quoted, 234. Mather, Samuel, Sr., 239-240. Mather Papers, 156. May apples, as playthings, 397. McMaster, Mr., cited, 78. Medford, Mass., boarding-school at, 114. Medicine, astrology in, 6; sympathetical, 6; secret, 6; ingredients of, 7; revolt against, 10-11. Meigs, Return Jonathan, 17. _Memoirs of an American Lady_, 94. Mertensia, playthings of, 384. _Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham_, 266, 267, 275. Meteorology, 6. _Microcosmographië_, 112. Middletown, Conn., school at, 96. Midway Church, Dorchester, Ga., 165-166. Milkweed, playthings of, 392. Ministers, families of, 12; as school committee, 67; as teachers, 83. Mintsticks, name of rods, 204. Minturn, Anne R., hornbook of, 119. Mirror of Compliments, 221. Miss, the term, 223. Mission, quoted, 17; 354. Mithridate, 7. Mittens, of Gov. Bradford, 35; of lace, 36; of nankeen, 36. "Money in both Pockets," 397. Monitorial system, 97. Monkshood, playthings of, 398. Morning-glory, 389. _Morse's Geography_, 147 _et seq._ Mother, sayings of a, 64. _Mother Goose's Melodies_, 174, 286 _et seq._ Mountfort, Jonathan, portrait of, 49; romantic marriage of, 49. Mourning pieces, 325. Mulberries, planting of, 310; leaves of, 311. "Multiplication is vexation," 143. Murder, of servant, 205. Music, love of, 112; simplicity of, 112; in colleges, 211. _My Mother_, imitations of, 298.