OF A CERTAIN PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY. 61 



IV-75, inferior to his brother in steadiness and ability; works in a 

 livery stable; has several children, undetermined. 



IV-77 is a good-looking, pleasant-spoken, plausible young woman. 

 Has been married to a traveling man who made his headquarters at 



. There were charges of unfaithfulness on both sides, and after 



a year he left her. She now lives as a domestic and receives attentions 

 and expensive gifts from her cousin. 



IV-79, slight, civil, fairly intelligent. Married to IV-60, a flagman 

 on the railroad. Home is in a poor section of the town in which they 

 live, but is neat and has many sunple comforts. The children are: 

 V-65, 9 years old and looks 5, but is in the fourth grade at school. 

 V-66, died at 3 of scarlet fever and diphtheria. V-67, age 3; wide 

 awake, active. 



IV-81, a rather slow, slovenly, silent woman. Married IV-82, a 

 drayman, who is stolid, honest, hard working. Home is in a decent 

 section of the town and fairly clean. Two little children (V-68, 69), 

 apparently normal. 



Summary of Line F. 



It is exceedingly difficult to characterize this line. The data are 

 incomplete, and the promiscuity of many of its members and the 

 resulting illegitimacy have made it difficult to follow characteristics 

 through successive generations. So far as facts were obtainable, they 

 would appear to support the following conclusions: By reason of the 

 diversity of the children in the second generation and through marriage 

 into diverse strains, this line shows a strong tendency to break up 

 into incipient strains of widely differing potentiality. Much of the 

 threatened degeneracy is checked in the second generation by the 

 failure of its most defective members to secure partners. Those who 

 do marry mate with their kind, and their descendants show social 

 inferiority, varying from a condition of imbecility which requires per- 

 manent care to one where occasional aid enables the individual to 

 maintain a pauper existence outside of an institution. Exception to 

 this rule is furnished by the deficient, immoral III-32. Her consorts 

 are said, in some cases, to have been of normal mentality. Her chil- 

 dren are of variable capacity, and all are superior to her in respect to 

 one or more leading traits. Their doubtful paternity, however, 

 would preclude closer analysis. The few superior members, on the 

 other hand, through marriage into fair strains, show progressive elimi- 

 nation of the defects that were characteristi c of the founders. 



