on the community,127;on systematic duty,166.Earthen ware,319.Eating, intemperance in,94,95.At any time,96.Too fast,101.Should not be followed by exercise,102;nor bathing,121.SeeFood.Eating-rooms, care of,306.Economy, on domestic,152.Extravagance changed for,176.Contradictory ideas as to,185.General principles as to,186.Relative obligations of rich and poor as to,191.Neglect as to,193.Of the aristocracy,194.Education in America,147.Associations for,203.SeeFemale,andMonticello.Employment, for the different divisions of a week,162.On regular, for all the family,163.Enjoyments,seeAmusements,andHappiness.Equality, on democratic,25.SeeDemocracy, Sexes,andWomen.Establishments, expensive, given up,176.Exercise, comparative, of American women and others,44.Neglect of,50,244.Method for securing, at the Monticello Female Seminary,54.Indispensable to the health of the several parts of the human frame,73,97.Of the muscles,76,78,97,116,128,129.Effect of want of, on the spine,78,80.Food to be graduated by,97.After eating, bad,102.Evils of want of,129.On furnishing interesting,131.Walking for,131.In useful employments,131.Excessive,132.Rule as to,133.On excessive, of the mind and feelings,197.Of the brain,199.Exhalations from the skin,92.Expenses, on keeping account of,173,174.Economy in,185,193.On graduating, by the income,186.On gentility in being careless of,193.On extravagance in,194.SeeEconomy.Eyes, screening, from light,217,283.F.Family, on early rising in the,126.Fathers neglecting the,255.On attachments of,256.Fasting in sickness,235.Fathers neglecting home,255.Fault-finding,211.Featherbeds,114,313.Feelings, inactivity of the,199.Feet, on protecting the,115,117,129.Keeping those of infants, warm,217.Bathing, for a cold,235.Female association for educating poor females,59.Female education, advantages for, in America,43.Objects to be attended to, in,48,49.Importance of mathematics in,56.Should be conducted by females,58.Present waste in conducting,60.SeeSchool.Female seminaries, on the endowment of,51.Importance of,52.Defects of,53.Suitable,53.Monticello Female Seminary, described,54.Division of labor and responsibility in,58.Requirement for admission to the Monticello,59.On providing,61,68.Reasons for introducing the study of domestic economy into,63.Establishment of, by a wealthy female,202.Should have gardens,251.Females, influence of, on the character of the young,37.Building schoolhouses,202.SeeAmerican women, Girls,andWomen.Filberts,348.Finding fault,211.Finger nails,122,144.Fire, escaping from,243.Fireplaces and fires,260,265,280,311.Fishing,244.Flannel,114.Utility of,115.On washing,285,286.Fleas,323.Flies, on destroying,323.Flower baskets,354.Flower seeds, on planting,332.Flowers,251,335.Arranging,337.Fluids, on taking,103,104.Folding articles,315.Follicles of the skin,93.Food, on the conversion of, into nourishment,87.Responsibility as to, in a family,94.On taking too much,94,95,128.On one kind of, for each meal,95.Should be taken at proper times,96.Strong laboring men need most,96.Quantity of, to be graduated by exercise,97.On the quality of,98.Stimulating,99.Animal and vegetable,99,100,220,221.Kinds of, most easily digested,101,104,105.Injurious, from bad cooking,101.On eating, too fast,101,128.On exercise after taking,102.On hot and cold,103.Highly concentrated,104.Certainbulkof, necessary to digestion,105.For infants,214,216.For nurses,215.Sickness from improper,235.Preparing, for the sick,239.Footstools,303.Foreigners, employed as domestics,40.Forewarning domestics,211.Forwardness of domestics,209.Franklin, Benjamin, diet of,222.Frocks, to make,326.Fruit, on the cultivation of,251,347.To preserve,350.Fuel, hints as to,280.Furnaces,260,note.Furniture, on costly,163,167.On inconsistent,188.On selecting,302.Packing of, for moving,316.Kitchen,319.G.Games of children,253.Garden seeds, to plant,333.Gardening,331.Gardens, at female institutions,251.On laying out,334.Gas, antidote for,242.Gastric juice,88,94.Gathering, in shirts,325.Girls, on sending, to school,48,60.Should assist their mothers early,49.Education of, at the Monticello Female Seminary,54.Confinement of, in school,133.Small, made useful,164.Forming habits of system,167;of making purchases and keeping accounts,188.Effects of excitement on,197.Taking care of infants by,214.SeeDaughters,andFemales.Gladiolus,335.Gloves, cleansing,298.Godfrey, Benjamin, Female Seminary endowed by,54.Gooseberries,348,350.Gothic cottage,271.Government of children,226.Unsteadiness in, and over-government,228.Maxims on,229.SeeChildren, Subordination,andYoung children.Grafting,344.Grapes,349,350.Grates,281.Gratifications, on physical,159,171,172.Grease-spots,289,297,298.In carpets,304.Greeks and Romans, bathing by,120.H.Habit, in a system of duty,166.Handkerchiefs, cleansing,298.Happiness, dependence of, on character,169.On living to make,169,200.Connected with duties,183.Hard-soap, to make,291.Head, blows on the,241.Headache,78,95.Health, delicacy and infrequency of, in American women,41,45.Effect of mental excitement on43;of a high sense of responsibility, &c.,44;of want of outdoor exercise,44;of bad early training,45;of exposures in newly-settled countries,46.On preparation for arationalcare of, in a family,68,69.Connection of exercise and,73,76,78,97,133;of the quantity of food and,94,95,100;of the quality,98.Of Catholics during Lent,100.Not from dirt,118.Effect of early rising on,125.On the duty of sacrificing,159.Causes which injure the mind's,196.Amusements and,245.Laughter and,253.Regard to, in constructing houses,260.Ventilation and,311.Connection of, with cellars,322.SeeAir, Exercise,andSickness.Hearths,305.Hearts, different,84.Cause of their throbbing,90.Heat of the body, regulated by the skin,92.Heating houses,260.Help,seeDomestics.Helping at table,310.Herbaceous roots,339.Horse-racing,245,246.Horses, care of,351.Hose, on washing,286,289.Hospitality, on manifesting,144.To strangers,257.Hot and cold food and drinks,103,110.Hot-beds,331.House-cleaning,353.Housekeepers, difficulties peculiar to American women as,30.Preservation of good temper in,148,150.Allowances to be made for,150.Necessity of a habit of system and order in,157.General principles for,158.Plans by, for saving time,184.SeeAmerican women.Housekeeping, on a knowledge of,134.Dignity and difficulty of,150,157.SeeLabor.House-plants, to repot,333.Care of,341.Houses, on the construction of,258.Regard to economy of labor in,258;to water,259,275;to heating,260;to economy of health,260;to domestics,261;to good taste,261.Plans of, and of domestic conveniences,261.Shade-trees around,275.Back-door accommodations to,276.Hunger,94,132.As a guide for taking food,97.Hunting,244.Hyacinths,335.I.Illinois, female association in, for educating poor females,59.SeeAlton.Imagination,199.Works of,249.SeeNovel reading.Impostors, soliciting charity,178.Impurity of thought,233.Income,seeExpenses.Indigestion,101.SeeHealth.Infants, mortality among,112,114,214.Too cold,113.Plunging, in cold water,113.Registrations of,113.On giving, to the older children,165.Use of, to elicit charity,179.Importance of knowing how to take care of,213.Combe, Bell, and Eberle on, cited,214.Food for,214,216,218.Medicines for,215,216,218,219.Pure air for,217,218.Keeping warm,217,218.Keeping their heads cool,217.Bathing,217,218.Nostrums for,219.Unquiet,219.To creep,219.Standing,219.Crying,219.SeeChildren,andMortality.Ingrafting,344.Ink-stains,298.Insects, on destroying,323.Preserving apple trees from,350.Institutions,seeFemale seminaries,andSchool.Intelligence, dependence of democracy on,36.Intemperance, H. Martineau on, criticized,30,note.In eating,94,95.In drinking,106.Female responsibility as to,106.Invitations,353.Ironing, articles to be provided for,293.Settee for,293.Boards for,294.Hints on,295.Iron-ware,319.J.Jewish use of time,182.Jokes,253.Jonquilles,335.K.Kitchens,163,259.On taking care of,317.Floors of,317.Oilcloths for,317.Furniture for,319.Knitting, to employ time,185.Knives and forks,307.L.Labelling powders,239.Labor, nobility of,55,147.On opposing the idea of the degradation of,61,123,124.Not inconsistent with delicacy,62.On economy of, in houses,258.Laces, doing up of,292.Lamps,281.Care of,282.Laplanders and their food,220.Lard, used for oil,281.Latticed portico,277.Laughter,253.Laws, necessity of a system of,25.Leghorn hats,299.Lent, health during,100.Ley, to make,290.Life, object of,168.Light, effects of,124.Screening eyes from,217,283.Lightning,243.Lightning rods,243.Lights,281.Limbs of trees, on training,348.Linens,288,328.Linnæus, cited,220.Liquids, on taking,103,104.Literature, guarding,249.Longevity, Sinclair on,126.From vegetable diet,221.Louis XIV., manners of his age,148.Lungs,89.Effects of tight-dressing on the,90,117.Bleeding at the,243.Luxuries,seeSuperfluities.M.Mahogany furniture,305.Manners, good,136.American defect in, and cause of it,137.Of the Puritans and their posterity,137.Principles respecting,140.Proprieties in,141.On cultivation of,141.At home,142.Leading points as to, claiming attention,142.Children to be taught,143.On conventional,144.At table,144.Charity for bad,145.Of the age of Louis XIV.,148.SeeChildren.Marble, stains on,305.Martineau, Harriet, criticized,30,note,141,note.Mathematics, importance of, in a female education,56.Mattresses,312,329.Meals, should be five hours apart,96.On the nature of the,103.Time of English,123.Meat, on eating,99,100.SeeAnimal food,andFood.Mechanical amusements,254.Medical men needed in literary institutions,198.Medicines, on giving, to infants,215.On administering,236,238.Different effects of different,236.On purchasing,239.Labelling,239.Men, engaged in women's work,164,165.Mending,330.Mental excitement, effect of, on health,43.On reducing youthful,48,49.On invigorating,56.Effect of, on the mind,197.SeeMind.Mexicans, teeth of,110.Mice,323.Mildew, removing,296.Milk, for infants,216,217.Milkweed-silk,227.Mind, connection of body and,195.Causes which injure the health of the,196.On inactivity of,199.Indications of diseased,204.SeeHealth,andMental excitement.Mineralogical collections,253.Modesty in children,233.Money, children's earning,164.Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, cited,135.Monticello Female Seminary, account of,54.System of studies there,57.Effort made there to cure defects of character and habits,58.Morals, American,