The hooping-cough is known, of course, by the child hooping; but I consider it the safest plan to send all children home that have any kind of cough; this will cause the mother to come and inquire the reason why the child is sent home; and it can be ascertained from her whether the child has had the hooping-cough or not.

With respect to fever, I generally find the children appear chilly and cold, and not unfrequently they are sick.  I do not, however, feel myself competent to describe the early symptoms of this disorder, but the best way to prevent its gaining ground in the school is to send all the children home who appear the least indisposed.

As to the ophthalmia, I can describe the symptoms of that disease, having had it myself, together with the whole of my family.  It generally comes in the left eye first, and causes a sensation as if something was in the eye, which pricks and shoots, and produces great pain:  the white of the eye will appear red, or what is usually called blood-shot; this, if not speedily attended to, will cause blindness; I have had several children that have been blind with it for several days.  In the morning, the patients are not able to unclose their eyes for some time after they are awake.  As soon as I observe these appearances, I immediately send the child home; for I have ascertained, beyond a doubt, that the disease is contagious, and if a child be suffered to remain with it in the school, the infection will speedily spread among the children.

As children are frequently apt to burn or scald themselves, I will here insert a method for adoption in such cases.  It is very simple, yet infallible; at least, I have never known it to fail.  It is no other than the application of common writing ink.  One of my own children burnt its hand dreadfully, and was cured by immediately washing it all over with that liquid.  Several children burnt their hands against the pipe that was connected with the stove in the school-room, and were cured by the same means.  One boy, in particular, took hold of a hot cinder that fell from the fire, and it quite singed his hand; I applied ink to it, and it was cured in a very short time.  Let any one, therefore, who may happen to receive a burn, apply ink to it immediately, and he will soon witness the good effects of the application.  Thirty-three years’ experience has proved to me that stoves in any school are a nuisance:  the common fire place is better than heating with hot air, hot water, or stoves of any description that I have yet seen.  The grate being low, as at railway stations, is an improvement and answers well.  Had theorists seen the white faced dull eyed children that I have seen, where stoves are used, and felt the head aches which I have felt, they would soon banish them from every school.

7.  NEVER CORRECT A CHILD IN ANGER.

8.  NEVER OVERLOOK A FAULT.

9.  IN ALL THINGS SET BEFORE THE CHILDREN AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION.