orts, what kinds most advantageous, 79.

State Reform School in Massachusetts, 449.

Statistics of education in the United States, 337-351.

Stooping, how induced, 70.
Habitual, to be avoided, 70.

Study, best time for, 138.
See _Brain_.

Sulphureted hydrogen gas poisonous, 102.

Summary of important principles, 145, 286, 323, 361.
Of improvements in the arts, 282.

Taste, the sense of, its uses and abuses, 163-165.

Teachers, why their health fails, 94-96.
Employed in factories, 268.
Their relation to the school, 410-440.
Books for, 410.
Tobacco used by, 417.
Indulge in other evil practices, 417-420.
Who make the best, 438.
Qualifications of, 340, 350, 417, 420, 422.
Institutes for, 420.

Teaching, should be ranked among the learned professions, 412, 439.
Compared with the practice of law, 413.
With the business of legislation, 413.
With the practice of medicine, 414.
With the clerical profession, 414.

Teeth, their relation to health, 65.
How to preserve them, 65.
Acids injurious to them, 66.
Tobacco not a preservative of, 66.

Timber, time for felling, 248.

Tobacco, its use tends to drunkenness, 67.
It impairs the sight, 186.
Used by teachers, 417.
Used by ministers, 417, 418.
A lady's inquiry concerning the use of, 419.
The use of, expensive, 420.

Touch, sense of, 160.
How improved, 161.

Township libraries instead of district libraries, 399.

Truancy, legal provisions concerning, 447-450.

Union or graded schools, 384.
They should possess a normal characteristic, 433.

United States, the, a Christian nation, 204. See _France_.

Universal education. See _Education_, _National Education_, and _Free
Schools_.

Unlucky days in Scotland, 236.
In the United States, 237.

Vaccination, how effected, 59.

Ventilation, necessity of, 91-99.
Of clothing, 57, 64.
Means of, 390, 397.

Vocal gymnastics, influence of, 107.

Vocal music useful as an exercise, 80.
Dr. Rush's testimony quoted, 80.
Should be introduced into all our schools, 107.

Walking, not the best exercise, 78.
How rendered most beneficial, 78.

Washington, quotation from Farewell Address of, 221.

Waste, the cause of, 44.
The repair of, 47.

Water, the freezing of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 321-323.

Watson, Rev. James V., on the providence of God, 62.

Weather, do