Farm Boys and GirlsMcKeever, William A. (William Arch)
Science
Farm Boys and Girls
McKeever, William A. (William Arch)
Boys; Farm life; Girls
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 over-working, 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, 16, 19.
Federation for country life in Illinois, 161 f.
Good health, fundamental to development, 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, 132.
"Homing" instinct, 23.
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 daughter'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 inheritance, 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.
"Mother's hour," recommended, 46.
Moving to town, to educate the children, 36;
how it affects the farmer, 36, 37.
National Corn Exhibit, 230.
Native ability, three classes of, 251 ff.;
how stimulus and opportunity assist, 253.
Newspaper, kind for the farmer, 73.
Occupations for women, 293 ff.
Oklahoma Agricultural College, work at county fair, 229.
Play, growing interest in, 27, 28;
practical uses of, 28 ff.;
an excellent set of materials for, 30;
sharply distinguished from work, 31;
after Sunday School, 97;
neighborhood center for, 159.
Play apparatus, model in farm home, 154.
Playground, apparatus for, 118 ff.;
for home and school, 154 f.
Playground Association of America, 155, 316.
Population, decrease in country, 83.
Prohibitory law, in Kansas, 318.
Psychological clinic, 265.
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