Life, 1889-06-13 · page 6 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 344 This page contains three distinct items: 1. **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** (top): An appeal for donations to send poor urban children to the countryside for health benefits. The "Before/After" illustrations show a sickly child transformed by country air. 2. **Haiti War Joke** (middle-left): A brief satirical comment on the war in Haiti, asking rhetorically whether a private soldier killed all the generals—likely mocking confused reporting or the complexity of the conflict. 3. **"Books Received" and "Dramatic" sections** (bottom): These are brief literary notices and a humorous dramatic dialogue between a grocer and farmer about summer boarders and canned vegetables—typical period humor about rural-urban commerce. The page reflects early 20th-century American concerns: urban poverty, colonial military involvement, and rural-urban cultural differences.
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OUR . FRESH AIR FUND Before After AST summer the readers of LiFe, by their contributions to this fund, enabled us to take more than two thousand poor children from the heated city and give them a fortnight of country air and country food. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the amount of health and happiness these figures represent. We ask you again to continue the good work. Whatever you give goes directly to the purpose. Not a cent of your contribution will be taken for the incidental expenses. LiFe sees to that. Every four dollars you give shall send a child to the country for a fortnight’s stay. Last year we started out with the announcement that three dollars was sufficient, and having accepted contributions upon that under- standing felt bound to-carry it out. We very soon discovered that three dollars was not enough, and to make good our promises the deficiency was supplied from other sources. Last summer's experi- ence has shown us that, aside from all preliminary and incidental expenses, the transportation and board for every child is about four dollars. If the average should prove a fraction less, the balance shall go to sending other children. If it proves more, we shall still see to it that for every four dollars given to this fund a child shall be sent to the country fora fortnight. HAT’S the matter with the war in Hayti? Has that private soldier killed off all the generals ? Monk: 1 say, JocKO, CATCH ON TER HIS HORNLETTS! Won- DER WHO HIS TAILOR 1S? BOOKS RECEIVED, THE CENTURY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A—Appet. Part I. New York: The Century Co. Antoinette. By Georges Ohnet. New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Indoor Studies. By John B hs. Bost: : migtdeer Studies. By John Burroughs. Boston and New York: Houghton, Vagabondia. A Love Story. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. New Vork: Charles Scribner's Sons, . “MOTHER, I'VE JUST BIN READIN’ IN THIS SUNDAY-SCHOOL PAPER THAT LITTLE BOYS OUGHT TO HELP THEIR MOTHERS ALL THEY CAN, AN’ IF YOU WANT ANYTHING DOWN TO THE STORE, I'LL GO.RIGHT AWAY FOR YOU.” 7 HE GROCER: Good-morning, Mr. Oatcake. What brings you back to the city so soon? FARMER OATCAKE: Waal, I’m going to have a good many more summer boarders than I expected, so you might send me ten more cases o’ canned vegetables! DRAMATIC. ““VELL, ABRAM, HOW'S DER BAWNPROKING ?” “DOn'T SHPEAK OF IT, Isaac; I’M NEARLY HEARTPROKE. DE ONLY PIT OF PIZNESS DAT I HAF DONE IN TREE DAYS IS TAKIN’ PLACE BEHINT DOT SCREEN AT DE BRESENT MOMENT, UNT DOT IS ONLY A POOR TEVIL OF AN ACTOR WHO IS TAKING OUT HIS SUM- MER CLODING, UNT LEAVES A VINTER SUIT INSTEAD.” comicbooks.com