CHAPTER X
THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM
(4) The Prostitute
"Jenny, you know the city now.
A child can tell the tale there, how
Some things which are not yet enroll'd
In market lists are bought and sold
Even till the early Sunday light,
When Saturday night is market-night
Everywhere, be it dry or wet,
And market-night in the Haymarket.
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Of the same lump (as it is said)
For honour and dishonour made,
Two sister vessels. Here is one.
It makes a goblin of the sun."
WHEN considering the reasons for women's lower wages, reference was made to the fact that women had other sources of income than those derived from their work; and no discussion of the economic position of women would be honest which did not take into account the undoubted fact that women can make more money by the sale of their bodies than in any other way. This may sound an extreme statement, but it is advisedly
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