The measure of feeble-mindedness is usually the measure of unhappiness when the normal and abnormal are in close companionship.

In most families it is not possible for either or both parents to give entire time, strength and devotion to one subnormal child.

Where it is, there is no security that death will not prevent the permanency of that devoted care.

Hence, it is generally safer and better for all concerned to place the feeble-minded in collective homes where their own kind are cared for exclusively and where segregated control can be complete and permanent through life.

There is no horror of such places for those who have seen what flowers of happiness and what miracles of devotion may be found in "Training Schools for the Feeble-minded." The affectional side of the nature of a mental defective may be of unusual strength and may find special objects of love among those still more handicapped than itself.