item: #1 of 15 id: 12818 author: Bushnell, Katharine C. (Katharine Caroline) title: Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers date: None words: 72659 flesch: 63 summary: Within this region, both above and below ground, were housed numbers of Chinese slave girls, particularly in Baker alley, where, it is said, were placed the young girls of tender years, generally about fifteen years old, when first brought over the water, or when first initiated into brothel slavery, having served their apprenticeship as domestic slaves. The truth, then, seems to be that a great demand had arisen for Chinese women at Hong Kong, the most direct cause being the irregular conduct of foreigners--officials, private individuals, soldiers and sailors--who gathered there at the time of the opium wars, and settled there in large numbers when Hong Kong became a British possession. keywords: british; brothel; brothel slavery; buying; case; chief; children; china; chinese; colony; court; day; general; girls; good; government; governor; hong kong; house; inspector; john; law; life; little; man; money; mother; officials; ordinance; place; police; prostitutes; prostitution; protector; registrar; selling; singapore; sir; slavery; slaves; state; system; time; way; women; years cache: 12818.txt plain text: 12818.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 15221 author: Addams, Jane title: A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil date: None words: 40417 flesch: 48 summary: The reports which its twenty field officers daily brought to its main office adjoining Hull House became to me a revelation of the dangers implicit in city conditions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life. Were the streets kept clear, many young girls would be spared familiar knowledge that such a method of earning money is open to them. keywords: business; chicago; children; city; control; day; evil; family; girl; home; house; human; life; living; man; moment; money; mother; new; number; order; people; police; protection; public; slave; state; time; traffic; vice; victims; wages; women; work; working; years cache: 15221.txt plain text: 15221.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 15883 author: Anonymous title: The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women date: None words: 38551 flesch: 74 summary: And because _Madam_, you are yet but a Beginner, and may perhaps be startled at this Doctrine, I'll let you see 'tis not my single Notion, but is the Judgment of a Learned Author, who long ago has written on this Subject, a Choice Copy of Verses, which I'll here repeat to you. here's to ye, says she; and drank off her Glass, and made _John_ fill a Brimmer and drink it off. keywords: bawd; bed; cou'd; gentleman; goldsmith; good; guineas; home; house; husband; lady; love; madam; money; morning; night; said; self; shou'd; sir; tho; thought; till; time; tis; whore; wife; woman; wou'd cache: 15883.txt plain text: 15883.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 26081 author: None title: Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade date: None words: 111745 flesch: 67 summary: When the truth was known, other young girls told what they had escaped by the capture and exposure of this reptile, for he was luring several of them to Chicago, one of them only fifteen years old. In fact, he made her life of shame a perpetual source of income, and when--not long ago--he was captured and indicted for the transportation of other girls, this girl was used as the agency of providing him with $2,000 for his defense. keywords: act; age; american; attorney; business; case; chapter; character; chicago; child; children; church; cities; city; country; crime; day; district; dollars; estelle; evil; fact; fame; father; female; fine; girls; god; good; having; home; house; ill; illinois; imprisonment; laws; life; light; man; money; months; mother; new; parents; penitentiary; people; person; place; police; present; prostitution; public; purpose; sec; section; shame; slave; slave traffic; slavery; state; street; time; trade; traders; traffic; united; vice; way; white; women; work; world; years; york; young cache: 26081.txt plain text: 26081.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 31615 author: Turner-Zimmermann, Jean title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls date: None words: 13760 flesch: 58 summary: Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner said. Some of them are engaged in importation, but apparently they prey rather upon young girls whom they find on the street, in the dance-halls, and similar places, and who, by the methods already indicated--love-making and pretense of marriage--they deceive and ruin. keywords: american; business; chicago; children; city; day; girls; home; house; life; new; place; prostitution; slave; street; vice; white; women; work; years; york cache: 31615.txt plain text: 31615.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 36220 author: Robins, Elizabeth title: My Little Sister date: None words: 63269 flesch: 92 summary: And while I recalled these things, in the back of my head, I kept repeating: Mother, mother! His wife, that Princess of Wales, who even before her marriage had been the idol of England was our idol too--apart from her high destiny as mother of the future King, (the little Prince born in the same year as Bettina)--and mother of that fascinating figure in the story, the solitary Princess of her house, three years younger than the youngest of our family. keywords: aunt; aurore; bettina; betty; day; door; eric; eyes; face; good; hand; head; helmstone; help; hermione; home; house; josephine; know; lady; life; london; look; looking; lord; madame; man; mind; moment; mother; night; people; ranny; room; round; sister; things; thought; time; voice; way; window; woman; world cache: 36220.txt plain text: 36220.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 36506 author: Kneeland, George J. (George Jackson) title: Commercialized Prostitution in New York City date: None words: 82116 flesch: 74 summary: Made_ |Counted_ ---------------------------|--------------|----------------|----------- Saloons, cafes and concert | 308 | 1304 | 2689 halls | | | | | | | | House of the |Prevention and| 75 | 177 |City grant, | 13,850 Holy Family |reformation | | |contributions, | | | | |sewing-room, etc.| | | | | | Washington |Prevention and| 27 | 85 |Investments, | 6,160 Square Home |reformation | | |city grant, | for Friendless | | | |contributions | Girls | | | | | | | | | | Margaret |Reformation of| 24 | 80 |Investments, | 3,238 Strachan |first cases. keywords: ----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |; -----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ |; 15th |; 1st |; 24th |; 25th |; 28th |; 36th |; 46th |; avenue; business; cases |; city; foreign |; girls |; home; hotels |; inmates; investigator; number; parentage |; parents |; places; price; prostitution; room; sixth; street; table; training |; west; white |; women |; work; york; | +; | ----+-------+-------+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+; | -----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+; | ------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+; | --------------------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+; | ----------------------+---------+---------------+------------+; | .|; | frequency; | house; | new; | prostitutes; | service; | st; | total; | trades; | wage; | |; | |_rent; | |_telephone; | |contributions; | ||; |prevention |; |reformation |; || | cache: 36506.txt plain text: 36506.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 40122 author: Higgs, Mary title: Glimpses into the Abyss date: None words: 85461 flesch: 78 summary: The public should be satisfied that every _destitute_ man and woman gets bed and board, with even-handed justice, in return for a task, if capable, or with proper care if incapable. Yet this, and one reputed to be worse, constituted the only accommodation for working-class travellers, men and _women_, in a fairly large town. keywords: accommodation; bath; bed; beds; bread; casual; class; clothes; common; conditions; day; door; drink; food; friend; girl; good; great; home; house; labour; law; left; life; lodging; london; man; morning; need; night; number; o'clock; place; poor; prison; provision; report; room; shelter; sleep; social; state; system; tea; time; town; tramp; vagrancy; vagrants; ward; water; way; women; work; workhouse; working cache: 40122.txt plain text: 40122.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 41873 author: Sanger, William W. title: The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World date: None words: 284210 flesch: 59 summary: | Years of |Foreigners.| over 20 | Colored.| | | | age. Women struck off the Rolls of | | | Prostitutes | |Years.|-----------------------------------| | | keywords: account; authorities; average; board; brothels; business; calling; cases; cause; cent; century; chapter; character; chief; children; circumstances; cities; city; class; classes; condition; conduct; country; course; court; crime; daughter; day; days; death; disease; dollars; education; effects; england; evil; extent; f. |; fact; family; father; female; following; force; form; france; french; friends; general; girls; good; great; habits; half; hamburg; home; honor; hospital; houses; husband; idea; influence; information; institutions; intercourse; island; keeper; king; labor; lady; law; laws; left; life; living; london; lover; man; manner; marriage; matter; means; medical; mistress; money; months; morality; morals; nature; necessity; new; new york; night; number; opinion; order; parents; paris; patients; pay; people; period; persons; physician; place; point; police; poor; position; power; practice; present; proportion; prostitutes; prostitution; public; question; reason; regulations; report; result; roman; rome; room; rule; servants; sexes; shall; society; state; streets; subject; support; syphilis; system; time; total |; treatment; united; venereal; vice; virtue; virtuous; visitors; way; week; wife; wives; women; work; world; years; york; | +; | m.; | men; | population; | |; |mother | cache: 41873.txt plain text: 41873.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 43631 author: Harland, Robert O. title: The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World date: None words: 44537 flesch: 77 summary: There are thousands of other men in every walk of life who are constantly on the lookout for a possible victim for whose sale they reap a small return in bloodstained dollars. An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated. keywords: ballot; blood; body; business; cent; chicago; city; combine; crime; death; district; dollars; evil; extra; gambling; girls; god; graft; hell; houses; life; man; money; night; pay; places; police; police department; power; price; protection; sin; slave; story; street; system; thousands; today; vice lords; vice trust; victims; white; women; world; year cache: 43631.txt plain text: 43631.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 47288 author: Andrew, Elizabeth W. title: The Queen's Daughters in India date: None words: 35847 flesch: 60 summary: A quarter of each Cantonment should be reserved for such women as are permitted to remain in camp, and all such women should be compelled to remain in houses or rooms specifically reserved to each by a registered number. After that experience she sought opportunity to talk with high military officials concerning the necessity of protecting high-born ladies from such risks, by furnishing opportunities for sensual indulgence to the British soldiers, and the result was the elaboration and extension of a system for the apportionment of native women to regiments. keywords: acts; british; cantonment; committee; compulsory; disease; england; examination; general; girls; god; government; hospital; india; law; life; lock; lord; native; officers; prostitution; regulation; report; roberts; soldiers; state; system; time; vice; women; | ditto; | | cache: 47288.txt plain text: 47288.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 50034 author: Lytle, H. M. title: Tragedies of the White Slave date: None words: 41862 flesch: 84 summary: This affiant says she is familiar with the Wellington hotel and had worked in said hotel for about a week, and while she worked there said Miss Arnold did occupy said room, and that Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, lived on the second floor in said hotel, in room number 228; and that this affiant, when she went to said hotel, did not know that Miss Arnold had moved out of room 545, when in fact she had, and, as your affiant is now informed, had left the hotel on the 12th of the preceding month. This affiant says that a man stepped out of said room and asked this affiant what she wanted, and this affiant said she wanted to see Miss Arnold. keywords: affiant; agnes; agnes barrett; alias; attorney; barette; barrett; chicago; city; day; ella; gingles; girl; good; home; hotel; kenyon; lace; life; madame; man; miss; miss barrett; miss gingles; money; mrs; night; o'donnell; room; short; story; tell; time; wellington; white; witness; woman; young cache: 50034.txt plain text: 50034.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 58935 author: Warbasse, James Peter title: The causes of prostitution date: None words: 5645 flesch: 65 summary: The very fact that some of these women receive partial support from brothers or fathers and are thus enabled to live upon less than they earn, forces other women who have no such support either to suffer for necessities or seek other means of support. Society makes prostitutes by regarding such women as irretrievable sinners rather than as victims of its own sins. keywords: causes; conditions; girls; good; life; poverty; prostitutes; prostitution; society; women cache: 58935.txt plain text: 58935.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 59441 author: Gálvez, Manuel title: Nacha Regules date: None words: 79753 flesch: 83 summary: Monsalvat heard the man out in silence. But Monsalvat's self-possession held the rowdy in check. keywords: afternoon; arnedo; day; doctor; door; eugenia; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; human; julieta; kind; left; life; like; living; look; love; man; moment; money; monsalvat; moreno; mother; nacha; new; people; right; room; sister; society; street; thought; time; torres; voice; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 59441.txt plain text: 59441.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 9390 author: Roberts, Fflorens title: Fifteen Years with the Outcast date: None words: 95247 flesch: 82 summary: I was working in a laundry, from early morning till, many times, late at night. In such a place it does not require many days, nay, many hours, to discover the subtlety of the enemy of souls. keywords: chapter; child; children; dance; day; days; dear; door; evening; family; father; following; francisco; friends; girl; god; good; hall; heart; help; home; house; jesus; kind; lady; left; life; little; lord; love; lucy; man; meeting; men; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; prayer; rest; roberts; room; san; savior; sister; soul; story; street; tell; time; way; woman; word; work; years cache: 9390.txt plain text: 9390.txt