Life, 1902-06-26 · page 6 of 31
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**The Image:** A black-and-white photograph showing a large outdoor gathering of people in period dress (appears to be early 20th century), labeled "AT LIFE'S FRESH-AIR FARM—JUST AS THEY ARE." **The Content:** This page primarily features book reviews and a "Fresh-Air Fund" fundraising notice, rather than political satire. The photograph documents LIFE magazine's charitable Fresh-Air Farm initiative—a real philanthropic program providing outdoor recreation for underprivileged children and city dwellers. **Historical Context:** The Fresh-Air movement was a genuine Progressive Era social welfare effort. LIFE magazine, founded 1883, used satire for social commentary but also engaged in earnest charitable work. This page shows that dual mission: documenting actual good works while reviewing contemporary literature. The content reflects early 20th-century American progressivism's emphasis on public health and charity.
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Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged... tT... . g esussee s8s8sssse $3,902.16 MANS duties in this world are V1 two—providing food for as many mouths as possible, and the mouths. TEWART EDWARD WHITE has already snown bis ability to draw an interesting pictare of frontier lifetn The Westerners. In bis new book, The Liazed Trail, he turns trom the plains to the great pine forests of northern Micht- gan and gives usastory of deep interest, rich with those qualities of virility, resourcefuiness and pluck which make for success in the pioneer of the logging camp. (McClure, Phillips and Com- pany. $1.50.) Considered as 8 book by one of the authors of Bageby's Daughter, Marie Van Vorst’s PAu p Longstreth is & remarkable step in advance, AS A story It ts another study of that much-attempt- ed subject, the would be missonary from the classes to the masses the self-appointed com- mittee of one to settle the differences between capital and labor. (Harper and Brothers, $1.50.) AT Live's PMasn-aln PaKM.—JUST as THEY ane. The Story of Mary MacLane, by herself, ts frankly tnspired by the journal of Marie Bash- Kirtsetf. Miss MacLane claims to be a resident of Butte, Montana, and an unappreciated genius The book ts compounded of chronic morbidity ‘and stupendous, though wholly unfounded, ego- d 1s quite valueless even if tt be genulne. one and Company, Chicago.) The Muastesippl Bubtle, by Emerson Hough, ts & historical romance constructed from # very free rendering of the life of John Law, adven- turer and fuancter. The book ts cast in the three-volume novel mold, and 1s tateresting but too long drawn out. (The Bowen.Merrill Com- pany, Indianapolis. $1.50.) The Supreme Sacrifice, by Mamte Bowles, 1s pecullar in that, while each character 13 drawn with the ability that lends life and color to the creation, there 13 scarcely @ pleasant persouallty among them, and the story Into which thelr lives are wrought {s trashy and disagreeable. (G. W. Dillingham Company.) The Deer Family, © volume treating of the deer, antelope, elk, caribou and moose of North America from the view-polnt of the hunter, writ- ten by Theodore Roosevelt, T. S$ Van Dyke, D.G. Eitllot and A. J, Stone, in spite of some rather wearlsome repetition, contains much of interest to all lovers of the wilderness. (The Macmillan Company. $2.00.) A story of the slams of Paris and the history of ‘& grisette who dlifered in morals from most of her sisters 1 told in Mile, Fouchette, by Charles Theodore Murray. On the whole, the book 1s rather trashy, although {t contains many well- drawn sketches of Bobemla. (J, B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, $1.50.) In the food of so-called poems which over- whelm the reviewer's table, 1t Is rare to lod @ book which sounds the note of the singer 80 traly as Verses by Bessle Chandler. (Langworthy and Stevens, Chicago.) Mrs, Chandler was for- merly @ frequent contributor to periodicals, and {t 18 to be regretted that of late her name has been seen so rarely. J. B. Kerfoot. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. By Wallace Irwin. (Elder and Shepard, San Frans cisco, 50c.) The First Reader, (Fuuk and Wagnalls ) The Teachers’ Manual for the Fire’ Reader, (Ponk and Wagnalls.) American Newspaper Directory, 1902. (George P, Rowell and Company.) Time and Chance, By Elbert Hubbard. P, Putnam's Sons, Revised edition.) Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, By Clyde Fitch. (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.25.) Bridge, I's Princtptes and Rules of Play. By J.B. Elwell, (Charles Scribaer's Sons. $1.25.) (a. THE lesson the trusts teach us is: Steal a little at a time, but keep busy. _ RS. HATTERSON : I suppose you send your children to pub- lic school because you want them to learn to accommodate themselves to all sorts of people. Mrs. Catterson: Yes, Later on, you know, they will go to summer re- sorts. comicbooks.com