Excerpt from My Battles With Vice "My Battles With Vice" is the story of the struggle for honor and virtue of the girl who must work to live. It is the story of thousands who have fought. the battle of modern industrial life and lost. Virginia Brooks is the girl, who singlehanded fought the forces of evil in West Hammond, Illinois, and compelled the town to clean up. It was she who drove the worst dives in Christendom out of existence, because, knowing the law, she fought for its enforcement. This story is written by a young woman reared in the best social atmosphere, whose desire to aid her less fortunate sisters manifested itself early in life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.