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each of these have normal consorts. They are self-supporting an.l do 

 much to keep some of the relatives from becoming entirely dependent 

 on the community. 



Of those fifty-four feeble-minded men and women, thirty-four have 

 received poor relief for the greater part of their lives; in poor relief I 

 include also the poor asylum cases; ten have served sentences, and one 

 has spent most of his life in an insane asylum. Four of the fifty-four 

 have worked regularly, the other fifty only Vv'hen the spirit moved them. 



Fifteen have no occupation at all. 



Seven do odd jobs. 



Six are fairly good housekeepers. 



Four are farm tenants. 



Three work in factories as unskilled laborers. 



Three are housemaids. 



Three are prostitutes. 



Two are washerwomen. 



Two are stone quarry laborers. 



One was a brakeman. 



One is a wood cutter. 



One is a barber. 



One is in a slaughterhouse. 



One is a well cleaner. 



One is a street cleaner. 



One is a hod carrier. 



Seven per cent, of these are entirely self-supporting. 



Twenty-nine per cent, are non self-supporting. 



Sixty-three per cent, ai e partly self-supporting. 



The simplest environment in which we find the Joneses living is down 

 in the Kentucky mountains where living conditions are of the most prim- 

 itive to be found. The district is so far from a railroad and the roads so 

 nearly impassable that they have never been far from their homes. T'lcy 

 raise all they eat and eat all they raise, or let it waste, because there i."- 

 no market. So there is no incentive for folk to be ambitious, but to 

 work just enough to feed and clothe themselves. On the other hand, it is 

 necessary that they do have the needful things of life, for theie is no 



