Life, 1905-09-07 · page 14 of 42
Life — September 7, 1905 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Content:** This page features "Postals from Life's Farm"—postcards from children attending Life magazine's Fresh Air Fund program, which sent city children to rural areas for summer camps. **The Cartoons:** 1. **"Braced Up"** depicts two babies discussing feeling energetic because one consumed a cracker containing "three million unfriendly germs"—satirizing contemporary anxieties about invisible bacteria and the then-new germ theory of disease. 2. **"Weatherproof"** shows a husband suggesting his wife remove a trunk's top covering because it won't fit in their cottage—a domestic humor scenario about traveling with excessive luggage. 3. **"In Vain"** references "Depew Improvement Company" and "Chauncey," likely alluding to Chauncey Depew, a prominent Gilded Age businessman and politician, joking that no improvement has occurred in his character. The page also includes a fundraising list for the Fresh Air Fund, showing donors' contributions. **Context:** This represents turn-of-the-century American humor mixing social commentary (bacteria fears, class-conscious charity programs) with domestic situations.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
AT LIFE'S FARM. Postals from Life’s Farm. Drar Parents u full of the f e arrived Safe, an ples. And pl nt, And i ast ¢ ¢ milk we can, We are in Branchville Lows Deeretcus Dean Mornen Aug.1 fT would tell you you that we We can have that is how we spent the days, Tam in Life Farm that L could 1 In Vain. “ PHE Depew Improvement C e, did it?” “T believe not, That is, I think there has been no im- provement in Chauncey. "t accomplish its pu Our Fresh Air Fund. Previously acknowledged,$5,187.64 Anonymous. . 3.00 M. 10.00 Navy... - 15.00 In the name of the chil. dren at The Maples... 31.00 Peggy Kemp 10.00 “Seis, Tirol.” 25.00 Ray, Ogden, Tod 25.00 Cornelia L. Gallatin. 20.00 Alice F. Learned... Braced Up. Fisst BABY: I'm feel- ing full of ginger to- day. Srconp Bany: How did it happen? “Why, [ got hold of a at happened to three mil- lion unfriendly germs cracker Weatherproof. Eyoseaed My dear, you had better have top of that trunk gled—there's no room for it in the cottage we OF THE HORSE, ae