The girl upstairs has the protection of family, friends, social position.

The last is of greatest importance, because the woman without a social position has ever been regarded by a large class of men as fair game.

The domestic worker sometimes finds this out within the shelter, the supposed shelter, of her employer's home.
[Illustration: ANOTHER SERIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL QUESTION] Tolstoy's terrible story "Resurrection" has for its central anecdote in the opening chapter a court-room scene in which a judge is called upon to sentence to prison a woman for whose downfall he had, years before, been responsible.

A somewhat similar story in real life, with a happier ending, was told me by the head of a woman's reformatory.

This official received a visit from a lawyer, who told her with much emotion that he had, several days before, been present when a young girl was sentenced to a term in a reformatory.
"She lived in my home," said the man.