Life, 1889-07-25 · page 6 of 16
Life — July 25, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# "Our Fresh Air Fund" - Life Magazine This page describes Life magazine's charitable initiative to send urban children to the countryside. The text explains they've sent fifty children to Heightstown and thirty boys to Hyde Park—"where quiet is a good of thing"—filling "remaining cottages of the village." The illustrated cottage and rural scenes (captioned "One of the avenues that border Life's village for children" and "In the city") present a visual contrast: peaceful trees and pastoral architecture versus urban density. The satire is gentle—the piece praises country air's restorative effects on city children's health ("it seems to put color in the faded cheeks"), while implicitly criticizing industrial urban conditions that make such intervention necessary. The donor list documents contemporary philanthropy rather than political commentary.
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-LIFE: FRESH AIR FUND Before After INCE we last saw you, Benevolent Reader, we have sent a band of fifty children to Heightstown, thirty boys to Hyde Park—in other words a gang of thirty unarmed bandittiand we have filled the remaining cottages of our village. The cottages are not literally filled, as we have but eight in each, and they will easily hold ten. This village is more attractive than you may suppose from our views of it, as one of its greatest charms is the rich green of the trees and ONE OF THE AVENUES THAT BORDER LIFE'S VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN, fields which surround it. And these shades of green, are more refreshing to the eye, than even the choicest of printer's ink. Whatever money you send assists us in taking these children from the broiling city and giving them two full weeks in the country, where they have nothing to do but breathe good air, shin up trees, eat, drink, sleep and trample down our grass. This is all hard work, but it seems to put color in the faded cheeks. To many of these children the country is a revelation, and the benefit they derive from their two weeks’ sojourn is almost incredible. It isa fresh grip on life and health. Previously Acknowledged... $2,017.97 W. Torle . «s+ 44-00 Jie ee + 35.00 guins (California) Lemon: Scoichman . |.” 10.00 20.00 10.00 4.00 eo. : : weeo Meare 4.00 Mrs, Richard Henderson an, Beg Party's Contnbation 10.00 Through E. Coster Wilmer- ding, Orange. : Jimmy Adelaide and Billy B.” Elizabeth R. Clara Carter. Katharine C. Parrish 7 H. M.A... . . . Harry Scotts Seabeighi NJ jarry Scott, Seabright, N. J. MBEAG From a Well Wisher Joraand Sydney ‘ Proceeds of | Entertainment held at Ft. Reno, Ind, Terr., by Lucie London, Bessie Foster, Jack Hayes, Amy Little, Dick Hayes, john Rogers and May Stephens... Little Elsie Lush * ds of a Lawn Fair beld by Two Little Girls, Alice Avrill and Vipont Doane, at Stockbridge, Mass. . A’sDime Bank . 0. |. MHS. oO. . JA: Jes Rochester, N.Y. From a” King’s Daughter, Kochester, N.Y. . Cash from Warm Springs, Ya. Edie. Sent_by a F Centre, Cont M.A. 3 E.O. d, Pomfret 3 Je. East Orange MissRoHo 2 7 7. A Friend, Boston, Mass. Total. IN THE CITY, comicbooks.com + F233 45