They do not develop properly in mind or body, when of age they are very poor assets considered financially or industrially.

They become permanent residents of the underworld and produce after their kind.
So the underworld is kept populated from many sources.

Widows with their children are promptly kicked into it, others descend into it by a slow process of social and industrial gravitation.

Some descend by the downward path of moral delinquency, and some leap into it as if to commit moral and social death.
And surely 'tis a mad world! How can it be otherwise with all this varied and perplexed humanity seething it, with all these social and industrial wrongs operating upon it.

But I see the dawn of a brighter day! when helpless widow mothers will no longer be the spoil of the sweater and the house "farmer." The dawn has broke! before these words are printed thousands of toiling women in London's underworld will rejoice! for the wages of cardboard box-makers will be doubled.