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The fifth child of VI 157 is a girl, who, at the age of 11, is in grade 3 in school and unable to carry on her work. She is inattentive, careless, sly, and very slovenly in her personal appearance.

The last child in this family, VII 187, is very slow in school, being only in grade 1 at the age of 9.

Athena's second child, VI 158, was a harlot before marriage. She is shiftless, not industrious, and manages her household very poorly. She married a man 16 years older than herself, who is an industrious and steady-going man, but has one brother noted for his licentiousness. They have five children, all of whom are retarded in school, and slow and easy-going in disposition.

The third child of Athena, VI 160, attended school and was always reputed chaste. Now she is untidy and shiftless. She married a man much superior to her in mentality and breeding, who is steady and industrious, and has been "pulled down" by his wife. They have four children. The oldest, VII 193, is slightly below the average in school work, but is trying hard to get along. He is a mouth-breather, but the school physician says that there are no adenoids present. The second, VII 194, is in grade 4 at the age of 10 and is doing fair work, except that in spelling and reading he always leaves out certain letters and combinations of letters. The other two children in this family are still young. The children of VI 158 and VI 160 were born and are being reared in a community many miles away from the Juke region.

Athena's fourth child, VI 163, has attended school, and is an industrious, steady fellow who has been married twice but has no children.

The fifth, VI 164, was ignorant and a laborer who worked at anything he could find to do. He married and had one child, VII 197, a neat quiet-appearing girl, slightly below the average in school work and mentality.

The last child of Athena, VI 167, was a wild, irresponsible boy. He grew up to be a semi-industrious, inefficient man, who has cohabited with two different women and had two children.

The sixth child of Albert and Ruth was Arthur, V 53, who was a quarryman; at the age of 33 could neither read nor write, went to war, was slightly intemperate, semi-industrious, and had no property. He married an industrious, temperate, reputable, but ignorant woman. Of the 15 children born to this pair, 6 died in infancy and 2 of tuberculosis at adolescence. The oldest surviving child, a daughter, VI 174, attended school for 2 years and can read and write. She is not very industrious, is rather easy-going, and quite hypochondriacal. She married a feeble-minded, inefficient man and has one boy, aged 20, who is mentally slow, lazy, and conceited. She has committed incest with her father and now, although living with her husband, conducts herself immorally with others.

Her four brothers, VI 180, 181, 182, and 184, all of whom are grown, are typical Jukes-rather good-looking, semi-industrious, fond of hunting and fishing, intemperate, and licentious.

A younger sister, VI 178, was considered an average child in school. She committed incest with her father after the death of her mother. She married an industrious but intemperate and unprincipled man, VI 179. They have five young children, the oldest of whom is doing average work in the third grade in school.

The last adult of this group, VI 185, was born in 1890. She attended school 3 years, but was stubborn, wilful and mentally incapable of learning. At 15 she was sent to the House of Mercy for petit larceny and at 20 to a Reformatory for Wayward Girls. Her record shows that she had there a premature birth, was later paroled, and finally discharged.

In marked contrast to the two stories of crime and inefficiency in the family groups of Adam and Arthur is that of their younger sister, Althea, V 56. Born in 1846, she was arrested at the age of 15 for prostitution and confined in the county jail for 2 days. This seems to have been her first and last lapse from virtue, as soon after that she married an immigrant and has conducted herself reputably since then. Her husband was a hard-working man, of good intent but intemperate, and considered "smart enough." He was accidentally killed by a railroad train while intoxicated(1888). Soon after her husband died Althea became very intemperate for 2 years. In 1890 she married a man 24 years younger than herself, but soon left him and is now living with her oldest daughter. Ignorant, untrained, and with a consequent narrow outlook on life, she is classed as one of the better ones of the old-time Jukes. Althea had six children.

The first, VI 188, born in 1862, was reputable, industrious, and fairly neat, but at present does not manage her household well. She has had some schooling, and married well. Her husband was an Englishman from a family of good reputation, and a steady worker. This pair had eight children.

The first is VII 207, a good student, who now holds a responsible stenographic position as a private secretary and is married. His brother, VII 208, who was also a good student in school, holds a responsible bookkeeping position. He has a high moral standard and lives up to it. He is unmarried. The third, VII 209, was not as quick in school as his two older brothers, but yet did his work easily. He married young, was a steady worker, but somewhat intemperate, and died under mysterious circumstances while under the influence of liquor. The fourth, VII 211, now 23, was a good student, ambitious, and well-behaved. He married VII 212, in order to legitimize their bastard child. VII 213, born 1893, was a good student, is ambitious, and now working hard. He married at the age of 19. The next child, VII 214, did average work in school, was always chaste, and married young. The two youngest children, VII 216 and VII 217, aged 17 and 14, are mentally very slow and are not quick to grasp school work. They are both hypererotic.