Each room is occupied by one girl only. A girl commences her career as a prostitute at about the age of ten or eleven. She is in nearly every case purchased by a brothel keeper, or by female servants employed in the brothels, from parents who are too poor to maintain their daughters or to give them in marriage. A parent who wishes to dispose of her daughter in this manner employs someone who is acquainted with some brothel and who takes the girl to the brothel for the purpose of inspection. The girl may be of any age between three and ten, and fetches a price regulated by her age. If very young in appearance, she would not fetch fifty dollars. If ten years old or thereabouts, she might fetch as much as one hundred and fifty dollars, the criterion of value being her looks and age without reference to social surroundings. If the purchase is effected, a deed of sale is made out and given to the purchaser, and the girl forthwith becomes the property of the purchaser and continues her property so long as she is able to earn money as a prostitute, or until she is redeemed either by herself or her lover. The redemption price has nothing to do with the original purchase money but is fixed by the owner, having regard to the earning powers of the girl and the wealth of the redeemer. When a girl is old enough for prostitution, she is kept by her purchaser either in the brothel to which the purchaser belongs, or, if of an age when girls are prohibited by law from being in a brothel, that is to say between the age of eight and fifteen,