ecting 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.
_See_ School.

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.
_See_ American women, Girls, _and_ Women.

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.
Certain _bulk_ of, 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