Of the 3,866 girls examined 1,236, or nearly thirty-two per cent, reported no previous occupation.

The next largest group, 1,115, or nearly thirty per cent, had been domestic servants.

The largest group of all had gone straight from their homes into lives of evil.

A group nearly as large had gone directly from that occupation which is constantly urged upon women as the safest and most suitable means of earning their living--housework.
Now you may, if you want to drop the thing out of your mind as something too disagreeable to think about, infer from this that at least sixty-two per cent of those 3,866 women deserved their fate.

Some of them were too lazy to work, and the rest preferred a life of soiled luxury to one of honest toil in somebody's nice kitchen.