Life, 1891-08-27 · page 6 of 14
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 104 This page contains two distinct elements: **Upper Section:** "Our Fresh Air Fund" lists donations to a charitable cause providing countryside respite for poor urban children. The fund collected $6,733.60 from readers, with individual contributions ranging from $1-$100. This reflects early 20th-century Progressive Era philanthropy addressing urban poverty's effects on children. **Lower Section:** A review of Julien Gordon's novel "A Puritan Pagan" discusses its protagonist—a man struggling between Puritan moral rigidity and modern temptation. The reviewer critiques the character as hypocritical, noting his inability to reconcile strict conventions with genuine human desires. The satire targets the disconnect between rigid moralism and actual human behavior, a common Progressive-era literary theme examining social hypocrisy. Both sections reflect contemporary concerns about social reform.
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-LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND. 5 farm is six hundred and eighty feet above the sea. The air is fresh, clear and invigor- ating. If we can judge by results it is also n active appetizer. We hope those who have a tendency to give to thts fund will York in August is very hard on the little ones. remember that the air of New For three dollars you can send one of these children to Lire’s Farm for a fort- n beds and nourishing food, efit. country life, cle are not only a joy and a surprise, but a permanent be Marion & Lydia... $5.00 Previously acknowledged .$5.752.70 Two Happy Children at T . 309 Chamonix beth. Janesville 3.00 da : Proceeds from Paper Lamp of West- Shades om the C. C M. V.W., Jersey chester FLW. B A.P Filia. M. M.D. j : From’ Larchmont Cireu- lating Library Proceeds of a Fair held under the direction of Misses May Eames and Edith Fairchild assisted by Grace and Benjamin ‘appen Fairchild and Nelite and Tiffany Rich- ardson 4s once 9.50 J... 100 LS Ba 10.00 Alice W. La Mc 10,00 rl Adele, S.C om GT “A Bostonian” DH *'A Brookiynite” Baby's J. A. Jr : From Little Marguerite Miss Allen Milicent’s Savings. Fresh Air Fund”. F.C H.& BH. EB Jos. C. Grew HOM. G : S.S. Portland, Oregon HPL | ‘ 3 : CF. “A Black Sheep"... W. A. T., Rockford, il From Elabeth R.. Den 15.00 15,00 3.00 3.00 $.00 11.00 3.00 6.00 5.00 From Constance. . From the Sunday-School class of | Mrs.” Walter ver, Colo .. Learned: Frank Terry, From ‘Little §: David Clark, Orlo Fen: ELK. wick, Oliver Fenger, From a Lover of Children Harold Smith, Malcolm W. H. Skinner, Bridge: Scott and Willy Gunn. $00 port, Conn., Cash... BLP... : 1000 From Billy"... Luzerne sco The Proceeds of tableaux Herbert's contribution yoo given by the ladies of Castine. veo Quogue, LT... From Far Rockaway,NY. 25.00 Graeme Tatum From Peggy Kemp, Law: * Margaret Allyn". rence. LC. y . Charles Schever The Tenth Fund From an interested li:tie y Square, £15 friend, Arthur H. O i From aC. H.. Jr. & M 4.00 300 15,00 mmy,”” M. 6.00 $.00 10.00 10.00 72.75 50.00 5.09 ‘ 3.00 5.00 From Milham A PURITAN WHO TRIES TO BE TOUGH. N the most recent novel of Julien Gordon (Mrs. Crug ‘agan " (Appleton) graphy of a man who inherits a New En 1) the special It is the bio- *, but not the There is no more character studied is **A Puritan F and consci J creed, and who tries to be wicked accordingly amusing spectacle (when it is not painful) than a son of the Puritans really trying to be tough. edness: his orations on the duties of citizenship ef in those thing fore he must be logical if it bre There is nothing spontaneous about his it is as carefully nged and premeditated as one of He has arrived at an intel- staff of life to his ks his heart, and he goes about his defiance of conventions with the serious fanaticism lectual dish: which were th ancestors, which characterized the old Abolitionists. The whole performance is as disagreeable to him as a first cigar to the boy who smokes it to become ‘a man.” ett Paavest— He: By Jove, Twist 1 COULD PROVE THE DEPTH OF sty AFFECTION FOR You! She: YOU MIGHT BREAK YOUR ENGAGEMENT WITH Miss Brown In the long run you can't make real wicked men out of this stock, and after agonies of remorse they are generally found steering back to the old manner of life, which they lead serenely ever after, occasionally apologizing for their ** weakness.” OR the most part the psychology of Mrs. Cruger’s novel is correct, along thes: lines, There is a little too much of impulse, how- ever, in. Vorioved's temptation and fall, In real life he would have arranged the whole campaign with the widow, and foreseen the final catastrophe on the very day of their first meeting. A son of the Puri- tans is never lacking in foresight, even in his moral de ‘There are a good ma sensitjve reader into opposition. For one thing it is offensively ** smart,” There is a useless innuendo, now and then, «din to shock the innocent. Added to is an ever-present consciousness of worldly wisdom. The author tries to impress the reader with the belief that at any rate the whole show of life is to her a well-worn spectacle which she understands thor- The reader likes to believe that he alone knows * how it is and this other attitude is trying to his vanity. arrozant. oughly don * . * N this (as in Mrs. Cru sayings worth quo “+ Ttis the custom to 5 “s other tales) there are a number of smart ing, more sententious, perhaps, than wis: :— But the fact which generally engenders dissimulation.” “Her religion was a sort of compromise between poetry and con- vention,” eak of lovers as dissemblers. remains that it is marcia, comicbooks.com