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still exists. The descendants of the old families still belong to it. The mansion house is still standing. They control the Oneida stock and they control the mansion house, the club, the grounds and all that. They control a good deal else too. This is one of the ways that they take care of the older people of their community. They move into the mansion house and are taken care of when they're old and alone. No children of those descendants ever go neglected. If their parents die, they are taken in by the community and are brought up like their own children. They live with some family, and that's that. There is a book on the Oneida Community that Pierrepont Noyes wrote himself. It's all in that book and is historically correct.

Christine and Grosvenor Allen gave me that book and are old friends of mine. I knew Christine when she was in college. Speaking of eugenics, she and Grosvenor were living examples of the eugenics theory. It was a little hard on her. She used to say, “I don't approve of eugenics. I don't approve of it. Look what it brings out - people like me.” She was six feet tall. Her husband was a bit taller, but about the same. She said, “Nothing ever fits me. It's too expensive to dress. I have to have everything made to order. It's no joke. Don't let anybody ever sell you eugenics. It's a bad idea.” But they were both