[obscured] -5 wanting to do anything for her and as being very selfish. [obscured] "hangs about with that man and goes to the movies every night." neither of these girls got beyond the second year high school as they preferred "to stay at home with mother." The Patient's Father and His Fraternity. III. 4. [obscured], the father of the patient is now 57 years old. He is a happy-go-lucky fellow, shiftless, with no ambition. He is and always was very nervous. When he was but 2 years old he saw his mother burned to death. He comes from a rich family but he inherited no money as "it was all spent before he ever got there." He was always such a frail child that his grandmother never thought she could "raise" him. He always had sick headaches. At times he would act very peculiar so that [obscured] thought that he was "crazy." Sometimes he would tell her that he felt a flat-iron on his brain. Time and again he is reported to have said, "I shall spend my last days at Kings Park." In 1910 [obscured] left her husband because he was "so peculiar." Six months they were separated because he took out the revolver and pointed it at her declaring he would shoot her. He does not remember this incident. For ten years he was out of work. He squandered all the money they had (it all belonged to his wife). He would come home "full of liquor" and would bring somebody along with him. He would bring as much as five gallons of it at a time and leave it at the back door. At such times he would curse and swear at all the household "more than tongue can tell." He always mistreated his wife and children and made home very miserable. Since his daughter's illness he has reformed, so that now he works in the Curtis aeroplane factory and has "stopped drinking." He had everything when it came to diseases. He was a graduate of Adelphi Academy. [obscured] was an only child, but his father married again; as