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I.EPT. Mag and her two children at the almshouse. She was able to count the number of her children so long as she had no more than ten, but was very much at a loss when the arrival of (he eleventh taxed her number sense beyond its narrow limits. This woman and her social life are vividly pictured in reference 50. Right. Feeble-minded family picking cranberries. Individual feeble- minded pickers can earn as much as two or three dollars a day at this work, but a little money soon allays their working enthusiasm. The girl at the left, Becky, is an attractive moron who is a center of immor- ality (or a-morality) wherever she makes her temporary abode. Her marital relations arc described in reference 58. The girl in the center is the mother of the children shown opposite page 54. The girl at the right is the third wife of the man described opposite page 24; he was married to her by a minister while his two 01 her wives were still living and undivorced. The little girl in the center is the daughter of the girl in the back center. She is the same girl shown opposite page 54, taken