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MARRIAGE IN THE UNDERWORLD.
Young folk marry and are given in marriage at a very early age in the underworld.

Their own personal poverty and thousands of warning examples are not sufficient to deter them.

Strange to say, their own parents encourage them, and, more strange still, upperworld people of education and experience lend a willing hand in what is at the best a deplorable business.
Under their conditions it is perhaps difficult to say what other course can or ought to be taken, for their homes are like beehives, and "swarming" time inevitably comes.

That oftentimes comes when young people of either sex are midway in their "teens." The cramped little rooms or room that barely sufficed for the parents and small children are altogether out of the question when the children become adolescent.
The income of the family is not sufficient to allow the parents, even if they were desirous of doing so, taking larger premises with an extra bedroom.