during labor, 225

Signs of approaching labor, 223
puberty, 30
conception, 128
over-nursing, 265
pregnancy, 168

Sight, the training of, in childhood, 319

Single life, the, 386
in its relation to sanity and mortality, 57

Skin, changes in, during pregnancy, 174
culture, of, in infancy, 306

Sleep, amount required in early life, 295
at puberty, 42
during pregnancy, 213
position in, 299

Sleeplessness during pregnancy, 360

Small pox, death rate from, 283
the only preventive against, 284

Son or daughter?, 198

Sore nipples, 246

Soup, Liebig's, 289

Sphere of woman, 21

Spinal disease, 36

Spring-time, 101

Spurious labor pains, 225

Stages of labor, 123

Starvation of girls, 41

Sterility, 106
how to remedy, 113

Still-births, 240

Stilling Jung, anecdote of, 67

Stimulation of the emotions, dangers of, at puberty, 29

St. Pierre, anecdote of, 78

Sully Raymond, anecdote of, 401

Swimming, benefit of, 306

Symbolism of the human body, 83

Syringes, and how to use them, 379

Talent, hereditary, 141

Teething, period of, 279

Temperament, transmission of, 137

Temperaments, explained, 77
influence of, 101
in marriage, 77

Things wanted during confinement, 221

Tight-lacing, 43, 374

Time of expected labor, how to calculate it, 206
of the year to marry, 87
of the month to marry, 87

Times when marital relations should be suspended, 103

Toilet, innocent arts of, 132

Tour, the wedding, 87

Toys, a mean of infantile education, 315

Twins, how to predict, 199
why born, 161

Twin-bearing, 160
influence of, on size of families, 163

Thury, Prof., discovery of, 157

Unborn child, education of, 191

Vaccination, age for, 285
importance of, 282

Varicose veins of pregnancy, 355

Ventilation of sleeping rooms during pregnancy, 212

Virgins, wet-nursing by, 260

Voice, change in, at puberty, 30

Wakefulness of pregnancy, 360

Walk, how to teach a child to, 313

Washing of the new-born infant, 231

Weakness, inward, 368

Weaning, 277

Wedding tour, the, 87
night, the, 91

Weight and length of new-born children, 238

Wet-nurse, how to select, 269

Wet-nursing by virgins and men, 260

White-flowing, 365

Wives famous in history, 59
plurality of, 64

Woman, the three phases in the life of, 22
physical differences from man, 19
sphere of, 21
to be sought, 65

Womb, falling of, 368