,3o6 Heredity and Eitgenies 



all syphilitic from birth. Of the seven daughters, five were 

 harlots and of the others one was an idiot and one of good 

 reputation. Their descendants show a preponderance of 

 harlotrj' in the females and much consanguineous marriage. 

 The second son was a farm laborer, was industrious, and 

 saved enough to buy fourteen acres of land. He married 

 a cousin and they produced three still-born children, a 

 harlot, an insane daughter who committed suicide; an 

 industrious son, who, however, was licentious, and a pauper 

 son. The first daughter of "Ada" was an indolent harlot 

 who later married a lazy mulatto and produced nine children, 

 harlots and paupers, who produced in turn a licentious 

 progeny. 



Ada had an illegitimate son who was an industrious and 

 honest laborer and married a cousin. Two of the three 

 sons were licentious and criminalistic in tendency, and the 

 third while capable, drank and received outdoor relief. 

 All of the three daughters were harlots or prostitutes, and 

 two married criminals. The third generation shows the 

 eruption of criminality. Excepting the children of the 

 third son, none of whom was criminalistic, we find among 

 the males twelve criminals, one licentious, five paupers, 

 one alcoholic, and one unknown; none was a normal citizen. 

 Among the females, eight were harlots, one a pauper, one 

 a vagrant, and two unknoAvn; none was known to be 

 reputable. Thus it appears that criminality lies in the 

 illegitimate line from Ada, and not at all in the legitimate 

 — doubtless because of a difference in germ plasm of the 

 fathers. 



The progeny of the harlot. Bell Juke, is a dreary monot- 

 ony of harlotry and licentiousness to the fifth generation. 

 Two in the fourth generation there are, and two in the fifth. 



