Life, 1891-09-03 · page 10 of 22
Life — September 3, 1891 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page contains three distinct elements: 1. **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** - A fundraising appeal listing donations for sending poor urban children to the countryside during hot summers. This was a genuine charitable cause of the era. 2. **"The Rum Curse"** - A brief dialogue between "She" and "He" debating whether rum is "the greatest evil of the day," reflecting temperance movement concerns of the Prohibition era. 3. **"Her Yachting Cap"** - A humorous poem by Tom Hall about a woman's white yachting cap and its various uses (fan, brush, hiding blushes). The accompanying cartoon shows a mermaid on a beach, captioned "What is that?" - likely a visual gag unrelated to the poem's text. The page reflects early 20th-century American middle-class anxieties about poverty, alcohol, and leisure activities.
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OUR FRESH AIR FUND. D° not button up your pockets under the im- pression that the Summer has gone. Off in your cool country home the worst is un- doubtedly over by the end of August, but in New York there are many hot days still ahead of us, and every dollar we receive now will do its good work for those who are anxiously waiting for it. New York pavements and New York tenements are still hot, and for several days to come they will be ex- cellent things to be away from. Previously acknowledged $6,755 60. | Fresh Air Fund, Cash..... $5.00 F.L A. & B. A. H., San From Lindley and Milly 14 Francisco... 1..." 4 10.00 Job..... -, . 60 We bs 3.00 BetaTheta Pi Alumni Cub, “The Acorns Fair.” giv Wooglin onWooglin Zee, by Three Smal N.Y. Sabbath morning i : : 16.53 collection......... “CEG $60 Mrs. William C. Bullitt From’ Two little Boys at ‘The Paper Doll Penny Club Lake Minnetonka, Minn, 5.00 b of the Misses Mabel and 1E.M.H : Fresh Air Boy: MISTER, DO YOU MAVE TO BUY CHEWING-GUM Sally Work. seco R.A.D . m1 SE COWS? * Baby Ruth”. 27: i Lydia Eliot 2000000 600g Corie * Little Peggy” Memoriam .... = = Proceeds of Fair held by Hearts... “Bobby” and“ Baby o.P 500 HER YACHTING CAP. Ruth ae 89 AntiSurly Society 5.00 then ; E. . Rochester, N. a . 0 t ittle ‘ing ca ‘The Late Cat.......1.. Dublin, No oe ; O ee de remee rae J. A.ULE foie Proceeds of Boat Rafiled That is lying in her lap, aig otro ety Carcbeoat Circala~ Has a sort of fascination for poor me. Conn, : : Larchmont Circ. Library It is made of something white N. Morris rc y, iz From 3 athan and Harry y."" Stockton, Cal.” ; And she wears it day and night, arrut cannes kJ Franklin, $ Through the weeks she spends each $ v the se: poe ae eee raat Through the weeks she spends each Summer by the sea. nin his name... From Circus... . z She Si : Proceeds of an Entertaio- Mr. Eleanor Hendricks. She can make of ita fan, ment by some of the ‘arrytown, N.Y........ vhei essary, 3 Sor ks Souvens reene Gad is And, when necessary, can Summer School of Lan- Hide her face behind it if she chance to blush, guages, Burlington, Vt.. Flom Mary... sce | Prom Opera’ Glasses’... : It has carried caramels, Nine Smooth Gi Chocolate drops and pretty shells, And I've even seen her use it asa brush. 9-co Total THE RUM CURSE. But still it has one fault HE: Rum is the greatest evil of the day. In my eyes -I'd better halt, He: Undoubtedly. It has produced the temperance Had I not, and ponder well what shall say? orator: She's darting warning glances— es Well—under certain circumstances HEN a man’s pipe is out he knows what it isto have The visor's always getting in my way. a true friend grow cold. Tom Hall, “WHAT IS THAT?” comicbooks.com