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Show A Woman's Bad Record A Scientific Man Tells of One Woman's Prosterity, 700 In Number. A special study of hereditary'drunk-enness hereditary'drunk-enness lias been made by Prof. Pell-man, Pell-man, of JJonn University, Germany. Ills method was to take certain individual indi-vidual cases, a generation or two back. No thus traced the careers of children In all parts of tlio present German Empire until he was able to present tabulated biographies of the hundred descended from some original drunkards. drunk-ards. Notable among the persons de scribed by Prof Pellman Is Frau Ida Jurka, who was born In 1740, and was a drunkard, a thief and a tramp fur the last forty years of tier life, which ended In Hoo Her descendants num. bered 8.11, of whom 700 were traced In local records from youth to death Of the 700 born, 100 were born out of wedlock. There were 144 beggars, (12 more who lived from charity. Of the women, 1S1 lived disreputable lives. There were In the family 70 convicts, 7 of whom were sentenced for murder. In the period of some scenty-tlve yeais this family rolled up a bill costs In almshouses, prisons and cot-rectlonal cot-rectlonal Institutions amounting to at least ,"(,000,000 marks, or about Sl.2-.iMXH) -Mcdlca. ltecord |