Life, 1890-09-18 · page 6 of 14
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 146 This page contains two main sections: **Upper section:** "Our Fresh Air Fund" describes Life's charitable initiative sending underprivileged children from crowded tenements to the countryside for fresh air. The illustrations show a "before" (sickly urban child) and "after" (healthier rural child). This reflects Progressive Era concern for urban poverty and child welfare. **Lower section:** A sketch depicts children and a dog near a tenement building, with dialogue about Sunday school lessons on stealing. The caption's ironic tone—noting the "boss is watchin' us"—satirizes the gap between moral instruction and survival necessity in poor urban communities. **Right section:** A book review of "Bromfield" (likely Willa Cather's work) discusses realistic portrayal of frontier life and women's experiences. The page reflects early 20th-century American social reform advocacy.
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ouR FRESH AIR “FUND Ly Before - After LIFE'S VILLAGE js still tenanted by a lot of youngsters who are laying in a winter's supply of ozone. Only a few days more of fresh air are left for them, and then begins the monotony of the crowded city -the confinement of the tenement house—the smells of the slums and stews. If the generosity of our friends makes it possible, we shall send down another battalion of oxygen-inhalers this week, and upon their return the village will be abandoned until next year. A circulating library for the benefit of Lire’s Fresh Air Fund was opened at Larchmont, N. Y., June gth, and has contributed up to date $356.00. The Larchmont Circulating Library at first consisted of 350 volumes, but now has 700, received from friends and publishers. Of the latter Messrs. Rand & McNally have contributed 34 volumes, Funk & Wagnalls 39, Henry Holt & Co. 31, Lovell & Co. 25, LiFe 20, Cassell & Co. 8, Chas, Scribner's Suns 7, Randolph 3, Robert Bonner t, and A Publisher 15. Previously acknowledged..$6.865 75 | Te Teese oy eee oe $5 00 From Noel and Harley. 1 co | Proceeds of entertainment Mrs, H.S....ccceees $ 2 at Edgewater Park, N HM. G... 1 $e J... by’ Marion A. ‘Ar- Proceeds of sale of paper nold & Hervey Miller 70 lamp shades made by PIMEAT cebessti cee too four young ladies at ‘chmont Circ. Library. 60 York Harbor : 3800 | From Party on board From a Friend $00 steamer “Wavecrest,”” xd From Boys of Mrs. F: From the Wigwam... $60 and Miss Burnet From an admirer of Live. 5 00 School, Southboro, From the Graduating Maa sssessoce nat ‘af 1890, of Of “ Phila.”.. a tees 400 School, Ogontz, Edward & Marion, South: gomery Co,, Pa... boro, Mass... Seo | Total... AT THE WHITE SULPHUR. get “4 . Mr. Goodhold: YOU ARE ALREADY ENGAGED! How you HAVE DECEIVED ME!—FAREWELL! Z Atiss Dolly Honeydew: Watt & MOMENT, Do YOU RETURN f r > LATER ? | Mr. Go: Never! Atiss D. H.: 1 ast SORRY; I WAS JUST THINKING THAT IF YOU should, | MIGHT MANAGE TO GIVE YOU AN ENGAGEMENT LATER IN THE AUTUMN ! A WHOLESOME BOOK. HEN Mrs. Custer writes about army life on the plains she is not romancing (as Captain King for example) but recalling actual experiences. Whether such a record will be sad or gay depends on the temperament of the one who has passed through the experiences. It is easy to imagine an anxmic woman, all nerves and “ razor-edged " culture, writ- ing an equally truthful account of Mrs. Custer’s experiences that would be a torturing narrative. But Mrs. Custer is pos- sessed of the “joy of living.” In the days of her *Follow- ing the Guidon” (Harper’s,) a new hardship was a new ex- perience, and that meant another color on her palette. From this outlook any life is an exhilarating episode—and one may recall a remark of one of Mr. Howells’s wise men (probably the delightful Bromfield Corey) that he had attended some very amusing funerals. “Come ALo! AND REMEMBER WHAT THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER SAYS ABOUT STEALIN'; BESIDES, THE poss 13 WATCHIN’ U comicbooks.com