Life, 1891-09-24 · page 6 of 18
Life — September 24, 1891 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Page 162 from Life Magazine This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** (top): A charitable appeal encouraging donations to send poor city children to the countryside for summer vacations. It lists previous contributors and donation amounts. 2. **"At the Newsboy's Mission School"** (middle): A humorous dialogue between a teacher and Mickey (a student newsboy) about reading comprehension, followed by Miss Coquette and Mr. Flint discussing making matches—likely a pun on matchmaking versus actual matches. 3. **Two illustrated vignettes** with captions about domestic situations—one depicting a woman with a child, another showing a beached boat. The humor appears to involve wordplay and domestic comedy typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. The page primarily showcases Life's mix of charitable announcements, gentle social satire, and family-oriented humor.
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162 - LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND. AS mouthpiece for the many hundreds of children LIFE: has had the pleasure of sending to the country this Summer, he thanks the contributors to this fund for their bus support. ‘The little travelers are now scattered about the city in their different homes, but they have with them the pleasant memories and physical benefits of their Summer Iv isa great good you have enabled us to accomplish, and we shall soon give a detailed report of the Summer's work, Previously acknowledged $8.539.78 Proceeds of a Children’s Proceeds of a Fair given Lawn Party given by by the Children of St. Miss Gwendoline Jack Hubert's Ion for Live's son and Miss Jeanette Fresh Air Fund, addi- Chotmeley-Jones at Bel- tional levue, Bordentown, N.J. $30.00 From L. 5 Collection taken up Camp Sunapee for Live's Fresh Air Fund... . 10.00 WIC ccsvsscoseieees 1.00 Barbara, Cal Total...ceeseceeeeee $8,609.84 AT THE NEWSBOY’S MISSION SCHOOL. CHER (fo Mickey): Now, Mickey, you read the lesson to me first and then tell me, with the book closed, what you read. MICKEY (reading): See the cow. Can the cow run ? the cow can run, Can the cow run as swiftly as the horse? No, the horse runs swifter than the cow. (Closing up his book to tell what he has read.) Gert onto de cow. Kin her jig-steps run? Be'cher'life she kin run. Kin de cow do up de horse a runnin’? Naw, de cow ain’t in it wid de horse. M IsS COQUETTE: Have you a mateh ? Mr. Fuinr: No! +O PAPA, LET ME KISS YOU RIGHT ON THAT DEAR LITTLE BALD 2 . spoT.” Miss C.: What shall we do? “WHOSE MILL ts Fr, AND How stucH 2?” Mr. Let's make one? —— — Miss C.: And in that case you would be the stick, I BOSTON spinster fainted one day last week bec suppose the mail brought her a new: RENCH OND: Come, the time for the meeting is now at hand and you must not be late. Where are your dueling pistols ? FRENCH PRIN- cipaL: Oh, I for- got. [let the chil- dren carry them off to the nursery for one of their games. AVE “Hill and*‘Tom” Plat have New York by the throat SAWHY, BILL, WILYT OX ALRTH HEY VOU DONE TO VER OLD CANAWL WONT?” SSHE WARN'T FAST FNOUGIE TO SUIT ME, Tosety, AND FED HER HULL MADE OVER TER THE SAME SHAGE AS THE SEW VATCIE *GLORIANAT THEY ARE ALL JAWEN' AnoUT. WERE Passtx! EVERYTHING ox THe Who'll get at her Caxat’ pockets first ? comicbooks.com