Life, 1903-10-08 · page 8 of 20
Life — October 8, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **Upper Section:** A "Fresh-Air Fund" report documenting health benefits for urban children sent to the countryside. The text includes testimonials from girls praising the experience, along with financial statements showing expenses and balances. **Lower Section:** A two-panel cartoon titled "Even More" featuring a dialogue between Forrester and Lancaster about wives. The cartoon depicts a rotund gentleman in formal attire with a small woman, illustrating the joke about wives meaning "everything" and "lots of things [they] doesn't say"—a domestic humor joke about marital communication. The second panel, captioned "Keep the Change," shows the same characters in a reversal scenario, suggesting a punchline about financial or power dynamics in marriage. This appears to be early 20th-century American domestic satire.
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344 Our Fresh-Air Fund. I N spite of many days of rain, the season just passed has ~~ brought health and pleasure to thirteen hundred and seventy-two children from the city, There has not been a single ‘kness. This record of health is phenomenal, when one realizes the condition of many of the children on arrival, and the green apples on the place. Apropos of eating, one colored boy absorbed, at one ing, seventeen pieces of bread, five bowls of milk, and various lemon and ginger snaps. A little girl, after her return to the city, wrote to Mrs, Mohr, ‘‘ All the mothers think there children are very fat and brown."’ Another girl wrote : “When I got home my mother told me to go and wash my face, but I told her I was sun burnt.” The season opened June 12th and closed September 11th. se of si STATEMENT Balance on hand at b Received during the nning of season ason 1903 to date Expenses - - Transportation Pay - New pavilion, plum! fad repairs Balance on band Even More. TER: Does your wife mean everything she “UMBRELLUS! SeVENDY-VIVE CENTS, UMBRELLUS I" -LIFE- \/ aT TPHAT was a very pretty wedding, some twenty years ago, of Miss Nixie Morralls to Mr. Orval Mannors. It was only eight years ago that she left her husband and eloped with Charlie Yuceliss. Society, of course, was scandalized. But it is all right now. Society has indorsed the whole proceeding. The runaway’s aunt, Mrs. Rotten Morralls, gave a lunch last Friday to the erring niece, and some of our best people were present. So Mrs. Charlie is all right again. Among those present at the lunch were Mrs. Poorleigh Bredd, Mrs. Nuntoo Klevor, Mrs. Baddicks Ample, Mrs, 0. C. Munnidrunk, and Mrs. Hookairs Enniweigh. For those scoffers who pretend that fashionable socie does not produce any men of real superiority, we will mention a few citizens who can be seen any day on the Avenue: Reginald Pusher, who took four ribbons at the last horse show ; J. Gadding Gadding, who is first vi president of the Alimony Club; Justor Kubb, who can drive a four-in-hand with his hat on, and Blazé Rounders, who is treasurer of the Co-respondents’ League. “xrep tar cuanor.” Ms