Many of the girls whom she rescued from conditions not to be described in these pages were so young that their cases were tried in the Juvenile Court.

Most of them went to rescue homes, reformatories, or hospitals.
Some slipped away permanently, in all human probability to join the never-ceasing procession of prodigals.
This is what "no previous occupation" really means in nine cases out of ten.

It means that the girl lived in a home which was no home at all, according to the ideals of you who read these pages.
Sometimes it was a cellar where the family slept on rags.

Sometimes it was an attic where ten or twelve people herded in a space not large enough for four.

Some of these homes were never warm in winter.