Life, 1902-08-21 · page 6 of 20
Life — August 21, 1902 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a satirical cartoon titled "The Crew of the Schooner 'Ledore'" depicting five grotesquely caricatured sailors on a ship. The exaggerated facial features and seated positions suggest mockery of specific individuals, though their identities aren't explicitly labeled here. Below is a photograph labeled "At Life's Farm—Wash Day" showing what appears to be a domestic scene with multiple figures. The page also includes a "Fresh-Air Fund" donation list and readers' letters discussing farm life experiences. Without additional context identifying the specific sailors being caricatured, the exact political or social targets remain unclear, though the crude exaggeration typical of early 20th-century Life magazine satire suggests commentary on contemporary public figures or social types.
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152 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged KPA Suances Seatile Virginia a Candiepins Proceeds of entertait by tive Hitle ates... eee In memory of my mother... ne Porter... on Louise K. Porte dtp Ht given soit Kite. ‘Ogden and Tod R.. In’ memory of A.M... ae The Colontal Chiidren A Boy : R. Brbsion 20 Cari Harold Weston. Sar : Mawaite Marton Story... BBS. Miss BMS ieee A Lover of Childre : JL Postietnwatte. 0200000000. 8. $6,198 THE CREW OP THR SCHOONER “ LEDORE," WHEN THEY READ IN THEIR ORDERS OXCE MOR * KEEP THE CANGO SECURE,” SAID, “THE WAY TO BE SURE 18 TO NEVER CUT LOOSE FROM TILE SHORE.” IFE acknowledges with thanks the gift of an Egyptian tent from Mr. William S. Hawk. It is fully appreciated by the young- sters at the Farm. 4 Life's farm Branchville Cinnicate please answer soon Your loving daughter Francis SOME FRESH-AIR LETTERS, Dean Masa haveing # good time and was very Jay Torning and we are all very John sald that to keep the kitten on tell Live's Pana BRANCHVILLE CONN. Dean Masta, It 18 very nice up bere this year. Sammie hasnt cried since he haa come here. Jobo. Wil- He, and Gracie all have been good. Mra. Moore gave Sammie a Itttle Jacket because it was cold, we come home. Nellle has» big belley and said 2 She sald anytime he fa hungry sbe will give bim that itis going to bust Mamie said that yous are oatmes! and milk, Write soon please Sarah “* GO Gayboy has recovered.” Daan Manoa We all arrived safely Tam having a good time And we are going out picking berries, Address “Yes, The lucky fellow was too poor to be operated on.”” ‘THE younger the love, the stronger its wings. Realism. (?) ‘JIRST SEA SERPENT: Have you had a good season ? conp Sea SERPENT: Fine! At times I had to pinch myself AT LIFES PARM—WaStt DAY, to make sure it was all a dream. N EVER did “the voice of one erying in the wilderness’ in days of old utter a bolder or more timely arraignment of ac- cepted social ideals than does C. II, Hender- son in Education and the Larger Life. We wish that many might “go out for to hear him.” The claims of character, health and independence versus a greedy commercial- ism, the superior benefits of developing one- self over exploiting one's neighbor are treated from a philosophically practical view: Itisa book to come b again and again for hope and inspiration. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. — $1.30.) point. The Winter Hour and Other Poems, and of Liberty and Other Poems, by Robert Underwood Johnson, are reprinted, together with the author's more recent verses in one volume, Poems. (The Century Com- pany. $1.20.) The Italian Rhapsody, one of the newer pieces, is among the most beautiful of all Mr. Johnson's writings. Songs Ifit is true that all books, like all men, have some good in their make-up, there are occasions when the unearthing of it requires both good will and Jong practice, William Henry Carson's story of Cape Cod fishing folk, The Fool, is one of these. (G. W. Dillingham Company. $1.50.) We have already noticed Charles Major's comicbooks.com