Farm Boys and GirlsMcKeever, William A. (William Arch)
Science
Farm Boys and Girls
McKeever, William A. (William Arch)
Boys; Farm life; Girls
_American Motherhood._ Coopertown, N.Y. $1 per year, 10 cents
per copy. Helpful and sympathetic. Especially strong in
respect to health and sanitation and in methods of
instructing children in regard to the secrets of life.
_The Child-Welfare Magazine._ Official organ of the National
Congress of Mothers, 147 North 10th Street, Philadelphia. 50
cents per year, 10 cents per copy.
The educational pamphlets published by the Society of Sanitary and Moral
Prophylaxis, 9 E 2d Street, New York City. Excellent monographs, each
treating some urgent child problem in relation to morals, sanitation,
and the like.
The Home-training Bulletins, prepared and issued by William A. McKeever,
Professor of Philosophy, State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan. 5
cents each. Each of these pamphlets contains about sixteen pages and
covers a particular home-training problem. The numbers thus far issued
are:--
1. The Cigarette Smoking Boy.
2. Teaching the Boy to Save.
3. Training the Girl to Help in the Home.
4. Assisting the Boy in the Choice of a Vocation.
5. A Better Crop of Boys and Girls.
6. Training the Boy to Work.
7. Teaching the Girl to Save.
8. Instructing the Young in Regard to Sex.
Others are in course of preparation.
2. Books on Child-rearing
HOLT. Care and Feeding of Children. $1 Appleton. Most helpful
and practical.
CURLEY. Short Talks with Young Mothers. $1.50. Putnams.
Helpful from the medical side.
HARRISON. A Study of Child Nature. $1. Chicago Kindergarten
College. Excellent. A standard help.
ALLEN. Civics and Health. $1.25. Ginn & Co. Most helpful on
the side of sanitation.
HALL. Youth. $1.50. Appleton. A great book on child study by
one of the world's leading authorities.
KING. Psychology of Child Development. $1. University of
Chicago Press. A Fundamental work for those who wish to make
a scientific study of child life.
RITCHIE. A Primer of Sanitation. 60 cents. World Book
Company. A clear, helpful presentation of the facts.
CHANCE. The Care of the Child. $1. Penn Publishing Company.
Full of detailed information about infants, especially.
MANGOLD. Child Problems. $1.25. Macmillan. Presents the
matter ably and in the light of the freshest information.
CALL. The Freedom of Life. $1. Little, Brown & Co. A great
and inspiring book. Will give rest and poise to tired
mothers.
GULICK. Mind and Work. $1. Doubleday, Page & Co. A companion
book to the one above, only more suitable for the father.
SALEEBY. Parenthood and Race Culture. $2.50. Moffat, Yard &
Co., New York. A remarkably instructive volume on race
improvement.
REFERENCES
How to Direct Children's Reading. Mae E. Schreiber. Annual
volume N.E.A., 1900, p. 637.
A Suggestive List for a Children's Library, 483 titles. Helen
T. Kennedy. Democrat Printing Company. Minneapolis.
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