24 THE JUKES. 



In this again the environment runs parallel to the heredity. 



Case 6. Now we take a quite different case, where the heredity 

 and the environment have coincided up to a certain age, and yet 

 the career of harlotry has not been run. Follow line 30, chart I., 

 to generation 5, is a girl, the sister of the woman in case 5, men- 

 tioned above, who kept a brothel and whose heredity has been 

 traced. Substantially, the environment was the same as that of 

 her two sisters who were both prostitutes. How closely she fol- 

 lowed them up to her fifteenth year is shown by the fact that in 

 186 1 we find her, together with her sister, arrested for vagrancy 

 and locked up in the county jail for two days. At this point, 

 however, the environment changes. She marries a German, a 

 cement burner, a steady, industrious, plodding man, settles down 

 into a home, brings legitimate children into the world and takes 

 the position of a reputable woman. In this case it is plain that 

 the change in the environment has supplanted the tendency of the 

 heredity. The case now is to be watched to see if, in spite of the 

 environment of a reputable home, the daughter of this woman, now 

 12 years of age, will revert to the ancestral characteristics, and 

 change what now seems to be an argument in favor of the potency 

 of environment into an argument proving the prepotency of heredity. 



If prostitution were merely a private vice, the bad effects of 

 which were confined to the individual practicing it, it would bte 

 a matter of only secondary moment, but the bearing which the 

 subject has upon the increase and perpetuation of crime arises 

 from the fact that it leads to neglected and miseducated childhood, 

 which develops adults without sense of moral obligation, without 

 self-respect and without a proper desire for the approbation of 

 reputable people. 



Looking over the aggregate of harlotry — 84 — we find 18 of the 

 women subsequently married. Inasmuch as in this 84 are included 

 a number of girls under 20 some of whom will yet marry, it would be 

 fair to estimate at 22 the number who will marry and avoid a pros- 

 titute career, which would be 26.19 P^'" cent of the total harlotry, or 

 over one-fourth, and this, apparently in the face of the force of 

 heredity. The old truth here appears that the tendency of mar- 

 riage is to extinguish prostitution. When we take into consideration 



