Life, 1904-07-14 · page 6 of 44
Life — July 14, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct items: **Upper Section - "Our Fresh-Air Fund"**: A article and photograph documenting children from the city staying at Life's Farm in Branchville, Connecticut. The text details the children's consumption of food during their stay (milk, bread, crackers, potatoes, rice, meat) and notes that many were orphans or children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It's a earnest account of a charitable program providing rural respite for urban children. **Lower Section - Cartoon**: A domestic scene depicting a woman (Maria) being scolded by a man (Hopkins) about self-control and darning socks. The satire appears to mock Victorian gender expectations and marital dynamics—the man lecturing the woman on proper wifely duties while she maintains composure. The humor lies in the absurdity of the moralistic lecture. Both items reflect Progressive Era concerns with child welfare and social reform.
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AT LIFE'S FARM. APTER A Swim, done. Nature and I have formed a partnership. Nature is the silent partner, and I am the businessend. That's how I came to succeed. And you may all do the same, if you follow my methods and my nerve. After atime you may get found out by the few who really know. But they are always in the minority, so don’t you care. Cultivate the majority, dear children, and fame and fortune await you. Henfex : CALM YOURSELP, MARIA. I’M SURPRISED THAT A WOMAN OF YOUR TEMPERAMENT SHOULD Lost MER SELF-CONTROL. DID YOU EVER KNOW ME TO LOSE CONTROL OF MYSELF? Mrs, Henpex : YOU LOST CONTROL OF YOURSELF, JONN, THR DAY I MARRIED YOU. THOSE SOCKS AND DON'T TALK $0 MUCH, Our Fresh-Air Fund. ONCERNING a recent party of two hundred and eight children under his care at Lire’s Farm, Mr. Mohr gives some instructive details. During their sojourn of two weeks they absorbed, among other things, twenty-eight hundred quarts of milk, fourteen hundred and twenty-seven loaves of bread, three barrels of crackers, one barrel and a half of gingersnaps, and an equal amount of lemon cookies.” They also ate three barrels of potatoes, fifty pounds of rice, and, every other day, forty pounds of meat. Of the oatmeal, sugar, beans, split peas and other articles we make no mention. In the pure air of Branchville children from the city are hard things to ‘fill,’ but it is evident that Mr. Mohr made a gallant effort. And in all probability he succeeded. Of this same party many were orphans, or half orphans, some being deserted by their fathers. Twenty-three were under five years of age. The fact that for the places of these children we had over nine hundred applications argues pleasantly for the popularity of Lirr’s Farm, STATEMENT Previously acknowledged In Memory of Mother. C.0. L., 1903. Cash, E.G. J Marion, Roscoe and Dav’ ard... 7 se §:00 $4,074.34 REV. U. 0. MOHR, Manager, Lire's Farm, Branchville, Conn. Dear Sir: \n reply to your esteemed favor of the x3th inst., it affords us pleasure to send you a donation of Painkiller (six dozen bottles of Painkiller, one dozen boxes of plasters, one dozen bottles of lung balsam, one dozen boxes of liver pills], as well as a few of our leading specialties, for all of which we are confident will be of consid- erable use. We recognize the good work in which you are engaged, and we hope that you will be able to relieve the various pains and aches with which the children are likely to be troubled during the summer time. We enclose a memorandum invoice. The goods are going forward by express today. Your acknowledgment in due course wil oblige, Yours very truly, Davis & Lawrence Co. New Vorx, June 17, 1904. NOW FINISH DARNING comicbooks.com