Life, 1895-07-11 · page 6 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 22 This page contains two distinct sections: **"Our Fresh Air Fund"** (top left): A fundraising appeal for children's summer camps, listing donors and amounts contributed. The small anatomical sketches show before/after physical development, suggesting the health benefits of fresh air programs for underprivileged children. **Book Review** (top right): A favorable review of "The Platted City," a Connecticut mill-town novel by Bliss Perry, praising its careful character development and narrative construction. **"The Banana Peel, The Acrobat, and The Disappointed Boy"** (bottom): Three cartoon vignettes depicting slapstick comedy—a boy slipping on a banana peel, an acrobat performing, and another child's misfortune. These are humorous illustrations typical of early 20th-century magazine comics. The page is primarily editorial and literary content rather than political satire.
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OUR FRESH AIR FUND. WO hundred children are now at LIFE’s Farm, and how many others get there this summer depends entirely upon the generosity of our readers, For many of these children this is a hard we world at best, and two weeks of country air and good food is not only a bright spot in their lives, but oftentime means health and strength. nerone. Arter, Mollie and Margaret Clarhe$_ 9 00 From a Friend. HOM. B.S, Tileston Hall Penny Club.. Fanny H, Bagg, Utica, N.Y Succonessett W. H.C. MLC. Previously acknowledged..$712 23 | S. Boe... F.S.B R. H., Providence, R. 1 Cash, Philadelphia, Pa. DPW xsstusstons dew K.K.C. Mat Chase . AS.G Best Wishes + 100 09 21 co 600 200 soo | A TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT. HE slaughter of the innocents in Brooklyn is likely to go on for some months yet owing to the request for more time on the part of the Trolley people, as they claim they cannot produce suitable fenders without the proper delay. In the meantime, as a temporary expedient, why would it not be advisable to rig up an electrical chair and a scoop net in front of each car that rises automatically as each victim is gathered in? Having been swiftly deposited in the chair, right side up, a head pan can be made to descend upon his head, and the circuit being completed, instantancous death will immediately ensue. The old-fashioned method of allowing human beings to linger along for days will thus be obviated, and while the officialssof the road are passing their valuable time deciding on a new fender, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are doing all in their power to avoid the present slow torture process, titi BY THE STORY OF A CONNECTICUT MILL TOWN. HE impression with which one closes “The Plated City" (Scribners), by Bliss Perry, is that nothing about the story is haphazard. The very last chapter is a revela- tion of the fact that the author knew what was to be at the end when he wrote the first chapter. You know that it was carefully thought out; that it is the result of reflection as well as of observation. The same care shows itself in the presentation of each character—whether the important ones, or those sketched in for background. There is never any doubt of their indi uality; they are not types, but individuals. Now all this forethought does not create the impression that the tale is a finely wrought bit of mechanism. The ease and grace with which it is all accomplished will rather per- suade the casual ‘reader that itis a simpler piece of work than it really But a man in the business will be apt to say that it is “not spontaneous"—and no one will know better than he the atrocious sins of laziness and incapacity that are covered by the adjective “ spontancous.”” He will still have his reserves, however, about the too apt adjustment of dramatic incident to character—from the arrival of Dr. Atwood at the library meeting in the nick of time, to his equally well-timed death, which satisfies the goddesses who deal out poetic justice. And yet nothing is more common in real life than the observation that to a certain type of man or woman things always do occur dramatically. Their very attitude toward life (which they bend by force of character to do something of their bidding) creates a background against which even what is accidental seems to be dramatic and predestined. . . . HE thing that the general reader will have no doubt about is that it is a good story and it goes." When THE BANANA PEEL, THE ACROBAT, AND THE DISAPPOINTED BOY.