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the cow could not make Homer satisfied with his end of the 
bargain, as he soon went West — alone. Oscar had by this 
time been driven off by Fannie’s grown children and in due 
time wandered back to the husbandless Goldie, with whom 
he still lives irregularly. Goldie is alcoholic, dirty, licentious, 
and syphilitic. She and her daughters live in a two-room 
shack in the west end of town, about which there is always 
a crowd of licentious males. The place is filthy and very 
crowded. Living with her are Margaret, her mother; her 
daughters, Daisy and Nellie; her son Otto; and Mabel, the 
child of Russel Smith. 
Oscar Smith is feeble-minded, alcoholic, and licentious. He 
never worked regularly; as soon as he has earned a few dol- 
lars, he quits his job. What money he earns, he does not show 
good judgment in spending. It was impossible to test him 
by the complete scale, but he missed the point to the absurdi- 
ties, did not know the date, cannot count backward, has a 
memory-span of only 5 digits, and can neither read nor write. 
Mrs. Lucy Owens, the oldest child of Oscar and Goldie 
Smith, is a high-grade moron, alcoholic and licentious. She 
has been treated for both gonorrhea and syphilis. She has 
never commercialized her vice so far as is known but is inti- 
mate with all, both white and colored. She has 2 children, 
a girl who died in infancy and an 11 year-old boy. Hugh 
Owens, her husband, is an alcoholic man, 52 years old, who 
married her while drunk. He is far above her mentally 
and socially. He is very nervous and flighty at times. He 
has a fine tremor and has suffered severe attacks of delirium 
tremens. Diagnosis : Borderline Insanity. 
Paul, the second son of “Old Goldie”, was not seen. 
George, the third child, is feeble-minded, alcoholic, and 
licentious. He now lives in 0. County with his wife, Gladys 
Park, who is also his step-cousin. They have 1 child, Grace. 
He can neither read nor write, and according to a physician 
is syphilitic. 
Otto, the fourth child of Goldie, is a feeble-minded man 
of about 40 years. He is a low-grade imbecile who can 
scarcely care for himself. He has always been a paralytic 
with speech and motor coordinations of lower limbs seriously 
impaired. It is possible to get his attention, but the jargon 
which follows as a response is unintelligible. 
