Orthogenic Cases—XVII—Jack: Feeble-Minded or Normal
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were handsome brown ones guarded by the longest and blackest of curly lashes. (These lashes, Jack informed us, he bought in New York.) His cheeks were radiant with bright color and his white skin was of very fine texture. His dark hair was coarse and straight. During the year that Jack attended Dr. Vfitmer's school, he practically never entered upon any spontaneous activity. His muscles seemed tight and bound. He walked stiffly and possessed no charm of childish grace. However, aside from his good looks, Jack's unique mixture of childish and old-fashioned ideas, which he expressed with such a lack of self-consciousness and with an en-
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