CHAPTER | PAGE |
PREFACE | 7 |
I. THE CHILD IN MEXICO | 15-38 |
The people | 15 |
Women and marriage | 16 |
Birth | 18 |
Casting the nativity of the infant | 19 |
Baptizing and naming child | 19 |
Care and treatment of children | 19 |
Dress | 24 |
Food and drink | 25 |
Lore | 27 |
Human sacrifice | 28 |
Slavery | 30 |
Industries | 30 |
Couriers | 33 |
Amusements | 33 |
Education | 36 |
II. THE CHILD IN PERU | 39-51 |
The people | 39 |
Buildings | 41 |
Dress | 41 |
Food, drink, narcotics | 42 |
Marriage | 43 |
Care and treatment of children | 44 |
The Virgins of the Sun | 44 |
Human sacrifice | 45 |
Industries | 45 |
Training of the Inca and the Order of the Huaracu | 49 |
Education | 50 |
III. THE CHILD IN EGYPT | 52-84 |
The country | 52 |
The people | 53 |
Slavery | 54 |
The home | 55 |
Women and marriage | 57 |
Child and parent | 58 |
Dress | 59 |
Food and drink | 62 |
Food and clothing of children | 64 |
Industries | 65 |
Sickness and death | 74 |
Child and religion | 76 |
Amusements | 76 |
Games, plays, and toys | 81 |
Education | 82 |
IV. THE CHILD IN INDIA | 313-455 |
Customs relating to land | 313 |
The people | 314 |
Slavery | 316 |
Servants | 318 |
The home | 322 |
Women | 334 |
Marriage | 336 |
Dress | 348 |
Infants' clothing | 359 |
Boys' clothing | 360 |
Girls' clothing | 361 |
Food | 364 |
Drink | 369 |
Food and drink of children | 374 |
Infancy | 376 |
Number and names of children | 379 |
Child welfare | 380 |
Manners and courtesy of children | 382 |
Diary of a Boston school girl of 1771 | 384 |
Inheritance | 388 |
Sickness and death | 389 |
The illness of children | 396 |
Amusements | 398 |
Games and sports of children and young people | 407 |
Children's toys and story books | 412 |
Holidays and festivals | 413 |
Public punishments | 416 |
Manufactures | 421 |
Boys' work and manufactures | 422 |
Girls' and women's work | 423 |
Religion | 428 |
The child and religion | 438 |
Education | 442 |
INDEX | 457 |