Life, 1890-06-12 · page 10 of 20
Life — June 12, 1890 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 340 This page contains two distinct items: 1. **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** (top left): A fundraising notice showing a child's head before and after receiving fresh air. The text emphasizes how charitable donations help poor children escape tenements for healthy outdoor experiences—reflecting Progressive Era concern for urban child welfare. 2. **"Quite a Concession"** (bottom): A satirical piece mocking Henry G. Marquand, a Metropolitan Museum trustee, who argued tenement residents lack appreciation for beauty and architecture. Life's editors sardonically respond that while Marquand advocates park access for the poor, the Museum itself should open on Sundays so working-class New Yorkers can actually visit. The cartoons on the right appear to be unrelated humorous illustrations.
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OUR FRESH AIR FUND Before After AGAIN Live stands before you hat sn hand ‘|The hat is a large one, and last year you dropped into it eight thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-four cents, It is unneces- safy to dwell upon the amount of health and happiness that money brought to the army of children it sent to the country. Every dollar contributed to this fund is so much toward getting a poor, and oftentimes a sich, child into the country for a fortnight. Four dollars is more than enough to pay his expenses for afortnigh with transportation there and back, Amount on hand from fund of 188, 2. Amounts received since closing our list October 31, 1889 : Dewitt C. Treat, . . . . 3 . January 10, Mrs. Cary, of Coban, Guatamala, 45, For the Fresh Air Fund, March iq, J.W.H, 6 06 ee ee May 6, Proceeds of entertainment by Helen Hallock and her little Brooklyn friends, $814 74 10 5.00 1 s0 200 13 4¢ 837 65 June 3, 1899, Little “+ King’s Daughters,” 5 00 $842 65 QUITE A CONCESSION. T the laying of the corner-stone of the Washington Square Arch, Mr. Henry G. Marquand said among other things: Have the occupants of tenement houses no sense of beauty? Have they no patriotism? Have they no right to good architecture?“ Happily there is no monopoly of the appreciation of things that are excellent any more than there is of fresh air, and in our mind's eye we can see many a family which cannot afford to spend ten cents to go to the park taking great pleasure under the shadow of this arch.” This is a good sentiment, but one we were not prepared to encounter in a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. If Mr. Marquand sincerely believes that the tenement house occupant has any right to see beautiful things L1FE hopes he will use his influence against slamming the doors of the Museum in their faces the only day they can go to the park. Moreover the interior of the Museum might afford a more extended and more varied pleasure than sitting under the arch, Does Mr. Marquand go so far as to approve their sitting under the arch on the Sabbath ? The arch should either be boxed up on that day or the Metropolitan Museum opened. } AGAZINE EDITOR (¢o sud.) : You'll have toleave out your literary notes this month, on account of the pressure on our art department. Sus.: Another portrait of Lincoln ? Epitor: No—three new soap advertisements. PSSuttiayk Wampum: Come THROUGH New Mexico? Ki Ki; No; 'rounn Care Horn, Wampum; How pip YOU GET SCALPED? + egy own aN E = “\WHA1's AILIN' YEZ, CALLAHAN MACDERMOTT, YEZ LOOKS THAT MELANCHOLY LOIKE ?"" “AN' ENOUGH TO MAKE ME I'M A THINKIN’. HERE HAVE I BEEN A’ LIVIN’ IN THIS SHPOT FOR TWINTY YEARS OR MORE, AN’ HAVE RAISED A LARGE FAMILY, AN’ I HAD JUST GOT MY PLACE TO ROIGHTS, WHIN THE OWNER OF THE PRIMISES GIVES ME NOTE I MUST MOVE ON THE FIRST. He's GOIN’ TO ERICT WAN OF THOSE BEASHTLY RISIDENCES ON THE PLACE. MRS. MACK, ME HEART [8 BROKE ENTOIRELY.” comicbooks.com