Life, 1894-08-02 · page 6 of 16
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# Page 70 Analysis: Life Magazine This page contains two sections: **Left side**: "Our Fresh Air Fund" - a charitable fundraising appeal for urban children needing summer respite. The accompanying sketch shows a thin city child, emphasizing the social concern being addressed. **Right side**: "A Tender-Hearted Traveler" - a humorous illustrated feature showing a man traveling with a donkey. The cartoon depicts comedic scenes of the traveler and animal in various mishaps (the man falling, the donkey bucking), playing on the incompetence or misfortune of someone attempting rustic travel. **Bottom**: A lengthy book review of "Trilby" discussing themes of male friendship and comradeship, contrasting it with contemporary literature about romantic love. The page reflects early-1900s Life magazine's mix of social commentary, light humor, and literary criticism.
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> LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND. A TENDER-HEARTED TRAVELER. HESE are the trying days for chil- dren who cannot escape from the city. The heat they have already suffered has produced its effect, and their strength, appetites, color and spirits are not as they were at the beginning of the summer, This also is the time when two weeks in the country produces astonishing results, Every three dollars sent to this fund means a summer vacation for a failing child, with country air, clean beds, fresh milk, fresh butter, eggs and vegetables, and as much as they can eat of all of them. Previously acknowledged $1,212.26 E. C. Aiken.....00. 0. ALL. Bosse oes 3 Proceeds of a sale given Harris Whittemore. Jr by the Sunday School of In Memory of Russel the Church of the Holy Marquand from A.C. B. Communion, Norwe From R. Ha I J * Fivels, Ridgefield, Conn From Madge, Elsie and Peggy Kemp.......-..00+ Lottie, proceeds of a | Marian F. Butler : Doll's’ Wedding given ‘ June 23, Oakland, Cal. B., friend of the U Ogden Ward... versity Settlement ¢ K. ALD “TRILBY.”” ND now we have come to the end of “ Trilby "—the beautiful story of three men who loved each other as brothers, and a woman who loved them all with that sort of comradeship that one expects from his dearest friend. ‘That is why you hear so many men talking about the story; for men, more than women, have a genius for comradeship. But you seldom find it in the modern novel which is given over to the immature love of boys and girls, or to an analy- sis of the meannesses of men and women. But 7afy, the Laird and Little Billee were bound together by that kind of friendship that seldom gets into books; you can’t gener- alize about it or give recipes for it in platitudes. You only know that it can’t be found among men who are without that depth and fidelity in their emotions which is called honor, It is not a matter of culture or asthetics—for Kip- ling’s “ Soldiers Three" exhibit it in as admirable a manner as Du Maurier’s “ Three Guardsmen of the Brush.” Pleas- ure and good-fellowship may have had much to do with the beginnings of such comradeship, but, when it is once estab- lished, their office ends; for the test of comradeship is the hardships and the sorrows that are endured in its name. It is one of the permanent things of life that give it continuity. The beautiful thing about it all is that it carries with it none of those generally accepted obligations that are called duties, The whole relationship is so absolutely voluntary. comicbooks.com