Acquired characters, not transmissible, 7. Agricultural education, money value of, 286. Agriculture, as a rural school subject, 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 Holton'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, 68. 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., 140, 161. Character-building, agencies of, 28 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 general, 251. Consolidation of rural schools, illustrated, 109, 123. Cornell University, model rural school 115 ff. Cornell University, 286. Corn-plowing, may be divine calling, 98. Corn-raising clubs, 150 f. Corn Sunday, in rural church, 95. Country boy, the right schooling for, 250 ff.; his interest in humanity, 259; must know current affairs, 260. Country church at Plainfield, Ill., 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 business, 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. Country Life Commission, 42 f., 148. Country mother, as teacher, 268; report of Country Life Commission, 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; avoidance of by care, 3. Domestic economy, for girls, 298 f.; in the rural school, 122. Exhibitions, by rural Y.M.C.A., 139 f.