OF A CERTAIN PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY. 55 



(VI-1), a heavy, inert girl of 19, who made Httle progress at school, has 

 already a reputation for sexual immorality. Two younger girls 

 (VI-2 3), who are modest and well-behaved, showed good ability at 

 school, but left at 14 to take up domestic service. The fourth (VI-4) 

 is deaf and dumb, and being educated at a State school. The fifth 

 (VI-5) was quick at school work. The sixth (VI-6), slow, dull, and 

 inattentive. The remaining four (VI-7 to 10) show, so far, no marked 

 defect, phj^sically and mentally. 



V-3, the younger daughter of IV-4, born 1883, was brought up on 

 the farm of her reputed father. A pale, deceitful, bad-tempered slat- 

 tern whose ill-kept home and neglected, dirty children are the talk of 

 the town. She prides herself, however, on her superiority to her rela- 

 tives. Has married V-212, Chart A, who belongs to a degenerate 

 branch of Line D. He works on the section and is fairly steady and 

 industrious. Four of the six children of this couple are of school age, 

 but they attend very irregularly and are given no training whatever at 

 home. The eldest was in the first grade when the family left C, five 

 years ago. When they returned there last year the four eldest were 

 in the first and second grades. The characteristics of the children are 

 as follows: 



VI-11, stillbirth. 



VI-12, born 1902. Had pneumonia at 4 and is subject to ear-ache 

 and sore throat. A rather pettish child, and has been caught pilfering 

 at school. Still in the second grade. 



VI-1 3, born 1903. A very slow, indolent boy, inclined to sneak and 

 play truant. 



VI-14, born 1904. A weakling, very small and slight; has not got 

 beyond the primer. 



VI-15, born 1906. A very likeable, plausible chap. The teacher 

 has given him great care and attention during the term he has attended 

 school, but so far has failed to make "any impression on him." 



VI-16, born 1910, and VI-17, born 1913, both undetermined. 



Going back two generations, we take up the third daughter (IV-8) 

 of III-l, born 1864. Always deficient. She learned to read very little 

 at school, and, though she could recite multiplication tables backward 

 and forward, could never write or apply them. Made to shift for 

 herself when very young. Had two illegitimate children (V-5, 6), born 

 at the county home, both of whom died in infancy. Worked out in 

 various places and later, when temporarily in the home, ran away to 

 marry IV-9, a son of the very feeble-minded brother of IV-55, Chart 

 A, by his marriage to a vicious, violent, sexually immoral woman. 



He is described as a very imp of Satan and having the face of an ape. 

 Was brought up by IV-1, Line A, whose name he has assumed, and 

 harbored by him until this man's second wife put him out of doors. 

 Has always been cruel, lying, and thieving, with a genius for malicious 



