OF A CERTAIN PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY. 49 



V-225. He is ignorant, alcoholic, shiftless, and fails utterly to provide 

 for his wife and child. 



The youngest member of this fraternity, V-236, is quite decent, 

 single and living at home; works with fair steadiness, and is the main- 

 stay of his parents in their old age. 



Returning once more to the third generation, we take up the remain- 

 ing children of III-43 and 44. IV-115 was born in 1855. A faithful, 

 plodding man, civil and obliging, with very little education ; has been 

 employed for 24 years by the railroad company on the section and in 

 the freight yard; at present is the baggage-man with the same com- 

 pany, earning S65 a month. Is sUghtly alcoholic. Married IV-116, 

 10 years ago. She is ignorant, morose, alcohoHc, and a slattern. How- 

 ever, she is kept in fair order by her husband. Their house presents 

 the extreme of dilapidation; no paint, doors sagging, window-panes out, 

 lace curtains ragged and dusty, extremely disordered within. The only 

 child (V-237) of this couple died at 6 months, the result, they say, of 

 overfeeding. 



IV-117, born about 1853. Married IV-118, the only brother of 

 IV-113 who lived to grow up; two others died at one year of cholera 

 infantum. The only child of this couple died at one year of the same 

 complaint, and the mother's death from pulmonary tuberculosis fol- 

 lowed soon afterwards. 



IV-119 made excellent progress at school. In his early manhood 

 got into a sheep-stealing scrape with his brother-in-law, for which he 

 served a term. Now married and reported to be working steadily in 

 a tannery. 



The sister (IV-122), born 1863, made good progress at school. A 

 woman of considerable energy, intelligence, and wit. Married IV-121 

 at 20. He comes from rather rough, alcoholic stock, of which he, in 

 his generation, is the most degenerate member. His father is reported 

 skillful and honest in the main, but unreliable in his promises to work. 

 Two brothers are said to be strictly honest and truthful, poUcemen in a 

 neighboring city. The third brother resembles his father, while his 

 two sisters are of good repute. He (121) was abusive and failed to 

 provide for his wife and children. When he was sent to the peniten- 

 tiary for stealing she made it the ground for separation from him, 

 taking the children with her. After earning her living for 8 years at 

 w^ashing and scrubbing, she married V-5, who belongs to Line A. 

 They are living at present at E, where her children have attended the 

 normal school. They go by their stepfather's name. They are : 



V-239, born 1889. He has always been a well-behaved boy, devoted 

 to his mother and fond of school. Took normal training in which he 

 substituted trigonometry and surveying for the languages, which were 

 difficult for him. Was a member of the school band and orchestra, 



