[164] A. Sherwell, Life in West London, 1897, Ch.  V.

[165] Bonger brings together statistics illustrating this point, op. cit., pp. 402-6.

[166] The Nightless City, p. 125.

[167] Stroehmberg, as quoted by Aschaffenburg, Das Verbrechen, 1903, p. 77.

[168] Monatsschrift fuer Harnkrankheiten und Sexuelle Hygiene, 1906.  Heft 10, p. 460.  But this cause is undoubtedly effective in some cases of unmarried women in Germany unable to get work (see article by Sister Henrietta Arendt, Police-Assistant at Stuttgart, Sexual-Probleme, December, 1908).

[169] Thus, for instance, we find Irma von Troll-Borostyani saying in her book, Im Freien Reich (p. 176):  “Go and ask these unfortunate creatures if they willingly and freely devoted themselves to vice.  And nearly all of them will tell you a story of need and destitution, of hunger and lack of work, which compelled them to it, or else of love and seduction and the fear of the discovery of their false step which drove them out of their homes, helpless and forsaken, into the pool of vice from which there is hardly any salvation.”  It is, of course, quite true that the prostitute is frequently ready to tell such stories to philanthropic persons who expect to hear them, and sometimes even put the words into her mouth.

[170] C. Booth, Life and Labour, final volume, p. 125.  Similarly in Sweden, Kullberg states that girls of thirteen to seventeen, living at home with their parents in comfortable circumstances, have often been found on the streets.

[171] W. Acton, Prostitution, 1870, pp. 39, 49.

[172] In Lyons, according to Potton, of 3884 prostitutes, 3194 abandoned, or apparently abandoned, their profession; in Paris a very large number became servants, dressmakers, or tailoresses, occupations which, in many cases, doubtless, they had exercised before (Parent-Duchatelet, De la Prostitution, 1857, vol. i, p. 584; vol. ii, p. 451).  Sloggett (quoted by Acton) stated that at Davenport, 250 of the 1775 prostitutes there married.  It is well known that prostitutes occasionally marry extremely well.  It was remarked nearly a century ago that marriages of prostitutes to rich men were especially frequent in England, and usually turned out well; the same seems to be true still.  In their own social rank they not infrequently marry cabmen and policemen, the two classes of men with whom they are brought most closely in contact in the streets.  As regards Germany, C.K.  Schneider (Die Prostituirte und die Gesellschaft), states that young prostitutes take up all sorts of occupations and situations, sometimes, if they have saved a little money, establishing a business, while old prostitutes become procuresses, brothel-keepers, lavatory women, and so on.  Not a few prostitutes marry, he adds, but the proportion among inscribed German prostitutes is very small, less than 2 per cent.