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the almshouse as a young girl and later was placed in a Children's 

 Home. She was discharged from the latter institution after being 

 there but a short time. As a grown woman she was attractive, neat- 

 appearing, and quiet to a casual observer, but she had a career of 

 harlotry begun early in life and continued after she married (at 26) 

 VI 1 8, an ignorant, semi-industrious, but well-intentioned man. 

 Soon after the birth of her first child, VII 49, she was divorced on the 

 grounds of adultery. Cohabitation with a vicious criminal, VI 20, 

 followed and by him she had two children one of whom died in infancy. 

 This man was convicted of burglary and sent to State prison for i to 

 4 years, and during this time VI 19 again became promiscuous in her 

 sex relations. After his discharge from State prison she again con- 

 sorted with him, then later left him and cohabited with a negro by 

 whom she had one child. At the age of 39, VI 19 was sent to jail for 

 10 days for using indecent language. Two weeks after she was dis- 

 charged she was again arrested with her "husband," VI 20, and with 

 Ulysses, V 194, for the same offense and sent this time to the peni- 

 tentiary for 3 months. At 40 she was arrested for intoxication and 

 sent to jail for 10 days. Even later in life, to one who did not know the 

 real character of VI 19, her appearance, bearing, and behavior in- 

 dicated a woman of some refinement. She associated with a woman 

 much like herself in appearance but yet of the same low and vicious 

 traits. She placed two of her children, VII 49 and VII 50, in a Chil- 

 dren's Home. Her last child (by a negro) was taken by the negro's 

 people at her death, which occurred at 42. 



One noteworthy feature brought out by Estabrook's studies, 

 is the large amount of feeble-mindedness among the Jukes. The 

 children are for the most part retarded in school and give evidence 

 of poor native ability aside from the effects of their home life. 

 The children brought up in institutions generally turned out 

 badly afterward. In general, according to Estabrook, "one-half 

 of the Jukes were, and are feeble-minded, mentally incapable of 

 responding normally to the expectations of society, brought up 

 under faulty environmental conditions which they consider 

 normal, satisfied with the fulfillment of natural passions and 

 desires, and with no ambition or ideals in life." 



Feeble-mindedness characterizes the criminal elements of the 



