Life, 1896-09-03 · page 6 of 18
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# Page 172: Life Magazine Content Analysis The page contains two distinct sections: **Left side:** "Our Fresh Air Fund" — a charitable fundraising appeal listing donations to send urban children to the countryside for health benefits. The accompanying illustrations show before/after silhouettes of a malnourished child, emphasizing the physical transformation fresh air provides. This reflects early 20th-century Progressive Era concerns about children's welfare in industrializing cities. **Right side:** An article titled "Richard Le Gallienne: An Unrepentant Idealist" discussing the literary figure's commitment to beauty and artistic expression in poetry, arguing that "pure beauty of sound" deserves recognition despite modernist trends toward roughness. **Bottom:** A photograph labeled "A View at Life's Farm" showing a pastoral landscape with buildings and figures, likely illustrating the Fresh Air Fund's destination. The page combines philanthropy promotion with literary criticism.
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OUR FRESH AIR FUND. Ww hope the friends of the children id be- cause the season is nearing its end. It is now we most need your 3 Owing to the hard times we have re- ceived less than usual this summer, but there are just as many children who are fading for a change of air. The more you"give ust nore children we can help, and those who have been in‘the city through the summer need it now more than ever before. will not withdraw thei sistance. 4\ } BEFORE, AFTER Previously acknowledged Cash, Providence, Baby B. The Savings of es and Stanley Sevérny.oissssiotssien _ dou! CHT. Bayard Dominick Baby Helen Allen and Constance. ewport, R. i Rune- Harold Vassar's Dona- tion to Lire’s Farm. (aura and_ Dickson Blair and Sam. Tee Re Bridges Miss Mi. Le Siaitery. . C. O.1., additional... 5.00 Th Memory of Winthrop ; : H. Dawes............ 300 The Sagamore Dramatic = Club of Kenilworth, TM sccce stele $2,097 54 T. Ipswich. AN UNREPENTANT IDEALIST. [* will always be a disputed point whether the love of words with a beautiful sound is the survival of a barbaric instinct or one of the fine developments of civ- ilization, On the one side are those who reason that the finest poetry is produced in half-civilized times; on the other, there are men who can prove to you that the best poetry is the finest flower of culture. There is a compromise attitude that asserts that, while the best poetry is made in half-civilized eras, the keenest appre- ciation of it is in periods of broadest culture. Whatever the present literary epoch may be in the perspective of civilization, there can be no doubt that it is impatient of beauty of style, which is associated with dilettantism, and with what is artificial. The modern stylists who have made the greatest im- pression are men who have been careful to mingle force and ruggedness with beauty. That is why what is pure beauty of sound in Stevenson and Kipling has gained recognition. * . . J" therefore, takes some courage of a literary kind for Richard Le Gallienne to keep writing ‘* Prose Fancies,” of which a second series has just been pub- lished (H. Stone & Co.). He is an unrepentant A VIEW AT LIFE'S FARM. Ccomicbooks.com