48 THE FEEBLY INHIBITED. 



migraine and nervous trouble, winks constantly, and has attacks of melancholy; 

 she has only 2 young daughters. (22 : 242, II 20.) 



(43) Propositus, a 7-year-old boy, goes off by himself and not with other 

 boys ; at 6 years he was in the second school year ; plays truant ; works well 

 except during his queer spells; writes 6 to 8 letters a day to his mother; is 

 intelligent and able; he "knows what is going on at a distance" and antici- 

 pates questions; is obstinate and self-willed; runs away and says he does not 

 know why he does so; when spells of going off come on him his whole expression 

 changes; his face seems to bloat, lips get thick, eyes bloodshot, and, if angry, 

 he growls ; he is usually fond of neat, clean clothes, but when the spells come 

 on the worse he looks the better he seems to feel ; his mother has accused him 

 of taking things. Sibs : i-cf , died at 9 months of pneumonia. 2 - 9 , a bright 

 girl, probably about 5 years old. 



Father.— Bom in Sweden, a Methodist minister; is very selfish, has an 

 ungovernable temper, and has abused his son frightfully after he had run 

 away; he goes to brothels and lives at a hotel because, he says, his wife "gets 

 on his nerves." Sibs: Five survived infancy; of these 4 are not described; 

 one is "very erratic." 



Father's father. — A soldier, very erratic and superstitious; used to walk in a 

 graveyard at Christmas time and perform incantations. 



Fathers mother. — Unusually strong and intelligent for her type. 



Mother. — 32 years old; as a child anemic, neurotic; 5 years ago had an 

 attack of nervous prostration; before birth of her last child she had mental 

 derangements with blank periods; she wandered in the park, thinly clad, for 

 7 hours; she has definite spells when she does not know her husband, and after 

 such spells she does not remember what occurred in them. Sibs: 1 to 3, 9 9 , 

 not described. 4-9, has a peculiar love for animals and keeps a small 

 menagerie of monkeys, etc. 5-cf, normal. 6-d\ exceedingly erratic; not 

 vicious, but has occasional peculiar lapses when he will jaunt off; once, after 

 he was a married man with a family, a train came by where he was resting, he 

 suddenly jumped on the train and was away for a month. 7-cf , exceedingly 

 erratic; always a wanderer and, as a lad, served time in a penitentiary; despite 

 active attempts to locate him he can not now be found. 



Mother s father. — Deserted his family about the time the "Mother" was 

 born and nothing is now known about him. The family was broken up and 

 the different members taken in charge by different friends. This father was 

 erratic, but probably not a drunkard. 



Mother s mother. — Unknown. (3 : 100.) 



(44) Principal fraternity: 1 -cf , a farmer who died an old bachelor. 2-0", 

 a traveling salesman, unmarried. 3-cf, lives in Chicago, is a photographer. 

 4-cf 1 , a farmer, unmarried. 5-cf, a traveling man in the West. (The field 

 worker remarks that all but one of these brothers followed a business which 

 had traveling in it.) 



Father. — Married and moved out West. They traveled all through the West 

 like gypsies, in a camping- wagon. They never had a home and the father 

 never would settle down and work any length of time. He enjoyed absolute 

 laziness, sitting all day and smoking his pipe. Sibs: i-c? , unknown; he had 

 5 children : (a) d* , a harness-maker ; (b) d\ an old bachelor and a drunkard ; 

 (c) cT , very alcoholic, separated from his wife ; they had 3 sons, none of whom 

 married; the first is an actor traveling with a theatrical company, the second 

 is a ne'er-do-well, the third smokes, drinks, and is worthless; (d) 9 , unknown; 

 (e) 9, undescribed; one of her daughters has nervous headaches. 2-d\ ab- 



