Shoes

The hand of poverty cannot be wriggled out of

There isn't much of a plot and they pretty much reveal it all in the intro. "Sold herself for a pair of shoes". So the rest is Lois Weber using her visual brilliance to illustrate the girl's social situation of supporting her poor family, with the lazy no-good father, and focusing on her hole infested shoes which leaks in the soaking rain like there is no tomorrow. A highly moral tale, but you get why she goes for the bait.