her away, and she never come back--Oh!” Stifling his sobs, he went on, “And now they say I am to send my children to school--and what can I do? Look there!” pointing to a lump of humanity, a girl who, at first glance, had thrown her imbecilic shadow over the whole group, making them all look imbecilic--“do you see that girl? She’s always fallin’ into fits, and nobody can’t do nothin’ with her.” Breaking in here, the field worker said, “But, Mr. Saunders, you ought not to have the burden and the care of that girl; she could be made so happy and comfortable in a place where they understand such cases. You ought--” The field worker could get no farther. His eyes suddenly assumed a wild, desperate look and he burst out, “No, no! They’ll never get her. They tried it once, but they didn’t get her. They took my wife away and she never came back--they’ll never get her!” A few soothing words to allay the storm she had unconsciously raised, another expression of sympathy, and the field worker drove away, pondering deeply the meaning of what had been seen and heard. We have come to the point where we no longer leave babies or little children to die uncared for in our streets, but who has yet thought of caring intelligently for the vastly more pathetic child-man or child-woman, who through matured sex powers, which they do not understand, fill our land with its overflowing measure of misery and crime? Such thoughts as these filled the mind of the field worker on the ride home. Arrived at B----, her first care was to obtain an interview with the doctor who had attended Guss’s wife when she died. She found him ready to explain all he could of the family which he had always known and attended. “The mother,” he said, “was a kind-hearted, simple-minded soul, who tended as best she could to the needs of her family.” The epileptic girl, he explained, had always been a great care, and the doctor himself, aided by several prominent citizens, had taken the trouble to complete all necessary arrangements for having her admitted to the epileptic colony at Skillman. The father, however, could never be made to give his consent. The mother was still quite young when she was carrying her eleventh child. Some accident happened which threatened her with a miscarriage. The doctor was summoned. He saw that it was a serious case and sent for two other physicians in consultation. It was decided that an immediate operation was necessary, if the woman’s life was to be saved. They succeeded in persuading Guss to allow her to be removed to the hospital. Their efforts, however, were unavailing; she died under the operation.