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DEVINE, Misery and Its Causes. HUNTER, Poverty. For more extended reading: DUGDALE, The Jukes. DEVINE, Principles of Relief. HENDERSON, Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Classes. RUS, How the Other Half Lives. ROWNTREE, Poverty: a Study of Town Life. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. The problem of crime is one of the great problems of social pathology.
The little girl, with that wonderful intuition that leads children to know who are in full sympathy with their hearts, seemed to need no other guide than that one look into his smiling face, and she was ready to trust him fully. Owen held out his hand impulsively. "I am your cousin, Owen Dugdale.
Dugdale appeared with a message, which by some wondrous good fortune he remembered to deliver that Nathanael had returned from Weymouth to Kingcombe, and was waiting there. Agatha gathered with difficulty that her husband wished her to return with Mr. Dugdale. "I will not go." "That's right! I wouldn't do it upon any account," said Eulalie, with not the kindest of laughs.
But, whether or not, it was certain that the captain ought at once to be made acquainted with the state of affairs; I therefore went forthwith to his cabin and aroused him. "Ay, ay," he answered sleepily, to my call. "What is it, Mr Dugdale? Has the barque hove in sight?"
Hugh seemed to have mapped out a plan of campaign in his mind, for he answered without hesitation. "We must pick up several of the fellows -Thad for one, then Owen Dugdale would be another good hand at hunting for a lost party; and, well, Julius Hobson for the third. That will make five in all, -enough to search the quarry road from end to end.
Of the five Miss Harpers, of whom one was dead, and another, the all-important "married sister," Mrs. Dugdale, lived in a town close by. Of Eulalie, the pretty cadette who was at some future time going to disappear behind the shadows of matrimony; of busy, housekeeping Mary, whom nobody could possibly do without, and who couldn't be suffered to marry on any account whatever.
The book covers investigations made by Dugdale between 1850 and 1870, a period in which little was known about the laws that govern inheritance, and necessarily, much evidence was pure hearsay without the data of careful investigation at hand. The case, however, does show a surprising number of criminals, paupers, harlots and misfits, descending from their original ancestor.
Feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, some forms of insanity, and some venereal diseases are inheritable defects; those who suffer from them must refrain from having children. Studies of the "Jukes" family and the "Kallikak" family, and others, show convincingly the spread of these defects where defectives marry. See R. L. Dugdale, The Jukes.
"Did you think my Duke could ride as he does? He never looks so well as on horseback. He is a perfect Thessalian!" Agatha was amused to find classic lore in Harrie Dugdale, and she gave most cordial admiration to Duke. "He is a magnificent rider; he sits the horse just as if he were born to it." "Bless him! so he was. He rode his father's horses at four years old, and went hunting at fourteen.
Do! I've no patience with him. Didn't he say himself that he would take us all to Corfe Castle? Oh, you you" And Harrie looked unutterable things. Mr. Dugdale gazed round placidly. "Really, now, that's a pity! Never mind, Missus! I only forgot." And patting her hand with ineffable gentleness and good-humour, he opened his book again.
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