50 THE FEEBLY INHIBITED. 



Father. — Is content to commit himself as a vagrant and remain in the local 

 jail during the winter, but as soon as spring comes he must be on the open road. 

 He has held positions in quarries and mills, but not for long, always setting off 

 again as a "socker" or umbrella mender; can make $4 to $6 a day, but it is 

 all dissipated in drink; every spring he and his wife declare that this time 

 things are to be different ; they will take care of their money, and in the fall 

 get a room somewhere; but every fall they turn up at the local jail. 



Father's father. — Unknown. 



Father's mother. — Unknown. 



Mother. — Immoral as a girl; since she married patient's father she has been 

 traveling around the country with him, carrying a huge peddler's pack on her 

 hip ; she gets drunk a great deal ; every fall she gets herself committed to the 

 local jail as a vagrant and spends the winter there. Sibs: 1-9 , born 1863; 

 a prostitute, has been in jail several times ; answers advertisements by Western 

 men seeking wives and asks for money to go out, then keeps the money and 

 doesn't go. 2 - 9 , was married and divorced, was a prostitute. 3 - 9 , conduct 

 unknown. 4- 9 , went insane. 



Mother's father. — Behavior unknown. 



Mother's mother.— Died of a stroke; had four brothers, of whom 2 drank 

 themselves to death. (39 : 100.) 



(48) Propositus, 9 , married first a tramp and ran away and tramped with 

 him. She is probably nomadic. Later she married a feeble-minded man who 

 is not a tramp and by him had two children. 



Children. — i-cf, born 1876; is married, but did not support his wife, and 

 finally ran away; has no home; tramps and won't work if he can help it; drinks. 

 2- 9 , born 1875, is feeble-minded, vicious, and ugly; has a violent temper, but 

 is not nomadic, so far as the evidence goes. (32 : 163.) 



(49) Propositus was a shoemaker and of a roving disposition; traveled back 

 and forth between New England and Mexico, where he was interested in some 

 mines. He had a brother who died suddenly, apparently in a convulsion, 

 was temperate and had a peculiar twitching of one eye and has a child with 

 the same. A sister died of tuberculosis at 25 years; 5 other sibs died at 14 or 

 younger (3 in infancy). 



Father. — Was a shoemaker and a seaman, according to the season of the year. 



Mother. — Died of tuberculosis in childbirth. Sibs: i-cf, a shoemaker, 

 extremely epileptic; he developed many mannerisms, such as wearing his 

 bandana handkerchief protruding from his pocket; grew very eccentric and 

 died demented. 2 - 9 , an industrious, energetic young woman of very excellent 

 character; was much in demand as a seamstress; grew demented at 73 years, 

 at times violent. 3- 9 , had always bad nervous headaches. 4-9 , has long 

 suffered from recurrent melancholia with suicidal tendencies; once wandered 

 in a half -dazed condition for a half mile from the hospital; on one occasion 

 when her infant was only a few weeks old she walked with it in her arms, in the 

 spring of the year, a distance of 7 to 8 miles, when the roads were deep with mud ; 

 her cousin saw her coming down the street toward the cousin's home, a shawl 

 over her head, her dress wet, muddy, and frayed, and with the look of a tramp 

 about her ; when questioned she could give no reason for her conduct, so the 

 matter was not discussed by the family; has two sons who seem steady and 

 loving. 5-cf 1 , little known. 6- 9 , tubercular; died of pneumonia. 



M other' s father . — Was a skipper of a fishing-vessel; he was a quick-tempered, 

 capable, energetic man. Sibs: i-cf was a cooper and a "Millerite" who 

 believed that the world was soon to end. 2-cf 1 , nothing known about his 



