Many plans more or less appropriate for making the air pure.

Many good men, politicians, women and bishops, who spent the
Summer at the seaside willing now to spend a few days wiping
"CRIME" off the earth. ----

What is CRIME? Who are the criminals? Who makes the criminals?

Do criminals viciously and voluntarily arise among us, eager to
lead hunted lives, eager to be jailed at intervals, eager to
crawl in the dark, dodge policemen, work in stripes and die in
shame? Hardly.

Will you kindly and patiently follow the lives, quickly sketched,
of a boy and a girl?

THE GIRL

Born poor, born in hard luck, her father, or mother, or both,
victims of long hours, poor fare, bad air and little leisure.

As a baby she struggles against fate and manages to live while
three or four little brothers and sisters die and go back to kind
earth.

She crawls around the halls of a tenement, a good deal in the
way. She is hunted here and chased there.

She is cold in Winter, ill-fed in Summer, never well cared for.