Life, 1903-07-09 · page 6 of 20
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**Main Content:** This page features "Our Fresh-Air Fund," a charitable appeal for children's clothing donations. The top photograph shows a group gathering at Life's Fresh-Air Farm in Pleasantville, Connecticut. **The Cartoon:** The large illustrated panel depicts an oversized bee or insect character speaking with a man. The caption reads: "JUST LOOK AT BILL HARDSWELL, ISN'T HE GETTING PENURIOUS, LETTING HIS BACK OUT FOR ADVERTISING SPACE? WE'LL HAVE TO CUT HIM." This appears to be satirizing commercial sponsorship and advertising practices—specifically mocking someone (Hardswell) for literally renting their back for advertisements, suggesting desperation or loss of dignity for money. The humor relies on visual absurdity and commentary about advertising excess. The page also includes book reviews and advertisements typical of Life's editorial approach.
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There is a bouquet to his style which is most alluring, but it is the aroma of five wine, not the fumes of rum punch, and it may be well to emphasize the fact that these studies are neither detective stories nor tales of adventure. (Harper and Broth- ers. $1.50.) William E, Curtis's The True Abraham Lincotn makes very enter- taining reading, although it isa vol- ume more likely to please the public than the critics. It is not a formal biography, but a series of informal essays upon the many-sided man viewed from his many sides and strongly colored by the author's en- thusiasm. (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $2.00.) James A. Henshall, the veteran fisherman and writer, is the author AT LIPE'S PRESH-AIR PARM. of Bass, Pike, Perch and Others for Our Fresh-Air Fund. F friends of Lire’s children have any clothing to spare—new or old— it would be thankfully received at the Fresh-Air Farm. The children usually arrive with but one suit, and two weeks of country wear is disastrous for it. Anything in the way of children’s clothing will be welcome. At present we have a few pairs of small overalls and sundry other garments which children don on arrival, but we have not nearly enough, and the supply is always decreasing. Any gift of this nature sent to Lirt Farm, Branch- ville, Conn., will be of valuable serv Previously acknowledged... Miss Letia Van Schaack The Misses H. bya fair at Lakewood. Henrietta Croaman . Proceeds of a fair held in Montclair. N by Helen Louise K. Porter, Caroline Porter and Giadya Wheeler. Wm. P. Cisde. Contributed by ach Memorial to E. BLK. Casn...... Proceeds of a fair given wt Short iliii 4, by Margaret and Charlotte Strong. Frances Henry, Elinor Lyon and Blanche Tyng .. “JUST LOOK aT Y MARDSHELL! ISN'T HE GETTING PENURIOUS, LETTING HIS BACK OCT YOR ADVERTISING 8f WE'LL HAVE To CUT WIM.” the American Sportsmen's Library. The volume treats of all American fish east of the Rockies with any claim to game quali- except the salmon family and the big sea fish, and gives the essentials of knowl- (PUREE bits of dalliance with the super- ¢dge and very sound advice in a wide field. natural, published under the title of (The Macmillan Company. $2.00.) Questionable Shapes, will give unmixed — The Captain’s Tol Gate, the last work sure to lovers of William Dean Howells’s which will appear from the pen of the late delicate pen. Some of the comments one Frank R. Stockton, shows that author in ow tue new hears upon Mr. Howells’s writingsareamus- his most attractive mood. Occasionally comicbooks.com