a few words, but able to make his wants known. Was always 
delicate — a case of spina bifida. Learned to feed himself and be-

came cleanl_v in habits. Tenth cliild, fiftli son. Born at full term ;

labor not difficult, was a " water baby." Nourished by mother, who 
rambling and erratic, was destitute of the moral sense. When three 
months pregnant, while nursing her husband with a broken leg, she 
was forced to lift him frequently. Father then 45 and mother 37. 
Father a mason by trade, drank to excess and died two years later of 
dropsy. Of 10 children, 3 have died of consumption, I of abscess of