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gent girl from considering ^th favor his suit for mar- 

 riage. 



Another case was recently brought to my attention by 

 a social worker in the City of Chicago. Her charts 

 showed that the girl nnder consideration belonged to a 

 degenerate family which for almost a century has existed 

 in southwestern Ohio. The girl herself is of normal 

 intelligence, though of the servant girl class. She pos- 

 sessed enough energy and self reliance to break away 

 from the home environment about fifteen years ago, and 

 came to Chicago to live. Here she married a normal 

 man of intelligence and excellent parentage, a mechanic 

 of good ability. 



This girl's family tree presents many cases of sexual 

 perverseness, idiocy, imbecility, temporary insanity, 

 feeble-mindedness. weakness, and almost always the 

 most abject poverty. As a result of her marriage four 

 children have been bom, three of whom are perfectly 



