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with," "Chair to sit on," etc. She can sometimes ar- 

 range the weights in their proper order and at other 

 times not. The same is true of putting the three words 

 into a sentence. She does not know money. Her 

 definitions of abstract terms are very poor, in some 

 cases barely passable, nor can she put together the dis- 

 sected sentences. She rhymes "storm" with "spring," 

 and "milk" with "mill," afterwards using "bill," 

 "will," "till." 



In the revised questions, she does not draw the design 

 which is Question 2 in age 10, nor does she resist sug- 

 gestion, Question 4 in age 12. To the first part of 

 Question 5, age 12, she answered, "A bird hanging from 

 the limb," and to the second part, "Some one was very 

 sick." 



This is a typical illustration of the mentality of a high- 

 grade feeble-minded person, the moron, the delinquent, 

 the kind of girl or woman that fills our reformatories. 

 They are wayward, they get into all sorts of trouble 

 and difficulties, sexually and otherwise, and yet we 

 have been accustomed to account for their defects on 

 the basis of viciousness, environment, or ignorance. 



It is also the history of the same type of girl in the 

 public school. Rather good-looking, bright in appear- 

 ance, with many attractive ways, the teacher clings to 



