40 THE PEBBLY INHIBITED. 



brakeman; gets drunk occasionally. 4-cf , died in infancy, s-cf , born 1861, 

 a powerful man weighing about 200 pounds; kind, gentle, and open-hearted; 

 intelligent, sane; is in comfortable circumstances. 6- 9 , bom 1863, naturally 

 of a quiet and calm disposition, but subject to nervous and emotional disturb- 

 ances accompanying the menopause; following influenza became excited, de- 

 lirious, and was admitted to State hospital, April 19 10 and again in 191 2; 

 emotional, disoriented; has always had painful menstrual periods, frequent 

 and scanty, always followed by a severe headache; for a period of 4 years she 

 had convulsions every few weeks ; no children. 7 - 9 , bom 1866, has a speech 

 defect; gets words in wrong place; leaves out syllables, etc.; is open-minded, 

 childish, emotional; by a consort of inferior mentality she has i son and 2 

 daughters; the son, born 1885, is of a roving disposition and loose habits; lived 

 with one woman for a while and now lives with another in the metropolis; 

 works in a machine-shop. 8 - 9 , born 1 868, of an unstable nervous constitution, 

 hypochondriacal ; has children still young. 9 -cf , died in infancy. 10- 9 , bom 

 1873, calm, self -controlled, very reUgious and supersensitive; married a man 

 who has sprees every month or two ; these last for a week and he comes home a 

 "raving maniac" ; her eldest son, at 21, is a brakeman and drinks some because 

 he hkes to be "sporty;" the second son, at 20, is working on his grandfather's 

 farm; likes the taste of liquor, but drinks little, as it makes him sick; the 

 other sons are under 9 years old. 



Mother's father. — Bom 1831 and died 1907; slow and dull; easily influenced; 

 intolerant in reUgion and very fervid; became childish before he died; did not 

 seem to know what he wanted ; would follow one whim one moment and another 

 the next. 



Mother's mother. — Born 1833 ; an intelligent woman of good business ability 

 and well-educated; nervous, high-strung; became insane in 1858 ("after a 

 sunstroke"); voluble; would call people by Biblical names; bite the bed- 

 clothes, and try to tear herself loose; recovered in 6 months and never had a 

 similar attack. (28 : 63, IV 16.) 



(26) Propositus, C. S. R.; is normal, married, and became president of a 

 college in Japan. Sibs: i-cf , also married and became an educator in Japan. 

 2- 9 , married and lives in Pennsylvania. 3-c?, lives in Maryland. 



Father. — ^Unknown. Sibs : three 9 , unknown ; father's parents, unknown. 



Mother. — Unknown. 



Mother's father. — A general in the army. (40 : 205.) 



(27) Propositus, A. M., cf , born 1899; errand-boy; has a peculiar disposi- 

 tion ; runs away; when he comes hack promises faithfully to he good; his mother 

 can not control him; he is in an industrial school; was returned for breaking his 

 parole. 



Father. — ^Was in a military band in the Spanish-American war. 

 Mother. — ^A skilled needlewoman, separated from her husband. 

 Mother's father. — ^A slave ; escaped from slavery and ran away to Kansas. 

 Mother's mother. — Excellent housekeeper and real Southern cook. (Sea-4.) 



(28) Propositus, cf , born in Illinois, 1858; is fond of reading and travel; 

 as a boy liked running, wrestling, football; walking and mountain climbing in 

 later years; would study in the very early morning; was prone to dream; 

 abundant hair only slightly gray, though beard is white; appetite under 

 control; irascible; was home missionary; is foreign missionary in China. 

 Sibs: 1-9, died at 14 months. 2-9, bom 1862, teacher in high school; 

 scholarly, witty; strong preferences and dislikes. 3- 9 , born 1864, teacher of 



