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It might astonish you to know how many females of gentle birth and breeding are engaged in gainful occupations on this one block alone . It was not ever thus with them . Once they had wealth and engaged in nothing but delicious leisure . But in 1861 some men came down here , about six to one , and took all this wealth away from them , at the same time exterminating the males . Result : the females , ladies in the essential sense , must either become gainful or starve . They have not starved . Sociologically , it 's interesting .