Foundation of the CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY--Touching Procession of Homeless Children to the Office--The Feeling at its Foundation--Its Objects--To Found Reading-rooms, Industrial Schools, Lodging-houses, and Provide Homes for the Homeless--Dens of Misery and Crime--Thieves' Lodging-houses--"Rotten Row"--"Poverty Lane"--Haunts of the Young Wood-stealers--Hopes of the New Work--Workshops--Want of Success--Causes--Necessity of General Education, rather than Industrial, for Street-children...........................................pp. 84-96 CHAPTER IX. HOMELESS BOYS--THE NEWSBOYS' LODGING-HOUSE. Their Relation to the World, like that of the Indians to Civilization--Life of the Street-boy--His Lightheartedness--His Moral Code--His Religion--Few Addicted to Drinking--Their Generosity--Policy-tickets--Choice of Night Resting-places--Necessity to treat them as Independent Dealers--First Lodging-house for Newsboys In the World--Mr. Tracy--Plans of the Boys for a Scrimmage--Their Defeat--Remarks about their Beds--Origin of the Night-school--And the Sunday Meeting--Surprise at the Golden Rule--Belief in Miracles--Pathos of their songs--The Savings'-bank--Breaking up of Gambling and Money Wasting--Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor--Their Fitness for the Work--Immense Number of Lodgers--The Influence of the House--Payments by the Lads--Description of Rooms--The New Building--Extracts from Journal Statistics...................................................pp. 97-113 CHAPTER X. STREET-GIRLS--THEIR SUFFERING AND CRIME. Hard Lot of A Girl-vagrant--Sexual Vice--Dark Questions--Girls' Vices More Degrading than the Boys'--Effect on her Habits and Character--Great Difficulty of Reform--History of Prostitutes not Romantic--Their lives the Fruit of Neglect in Early Childhood, and of Lazy Habits--Their Good Qualities--Remedies for the Social Evil--Sad Incident of a Young Girl in the Tombs...................................................pp. 114-122 CHAPTER XI. LEGAL TREATMENT OF PROSTITUTES. Should License be Allowed?--The Views of Physicians--Foolish Arguments on the Other Side--Duties of a Physician Purely Medical--Objections to License under the Moral Aspect--Bitter Misery of this Class of Women--Effect of License to Encourage the Crime--The Recognition by Law--Prostitution can be Checked--Condition of this Class in New York Terrible--Necessity of Hospitals or Dispensaries for this Class in the City--The Absurdity of the Berlin License Laws--Non-licensing a Terror to Evil-doers--This Not a Proper Object for Legislators--Effect of License in Paris--Superiority of New York to other Great Cities in this Matter Partly Due to Non-licensing..........................pp. 123-131 CHAPTER XII. THE BEST PREVENTIVE OF VICE AMONG CHILDREN--INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.