They said
they knew what kind of a girl she was.
We never felt thoroughly satisfied with the family history on
account of the comparative ignorance of the parents, our only
source of information, although they were honest enough people.
All points in heredity seemed negative, nor could we learn that
there had been anything significant in developmental conditions.
The girl had only recently menstruated. Her people felt that of
late her word was quite unreliable. She went as far as the 4th
grade. On account of the short time in school in this country
this was considered doing fairly well.
Ten months prior she had fallen off a street car; it was not
known she was damaged seriously. A jury had given a verdict of
several hundred dollars against the company, but on account of an
appeal having been taken the case was still unsettled. Since the
accident a number of fainting attacks had occurred and Georgia
had lost one position on account of them, a place where she had
worked for 2 years. She was said to have been quite healthy
before the accident. Some 5 weeks before we saw her, the girl
had become hysterical and announced that she had not menstruated
the week before and the cause was that she had been raped.
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