Life, 1909-08-26 · page 8 of 28
Life — August 26, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: 1. **"At Life's Farm" photograph**: Shows people wading in water, likely depicting rural recreation or farm life activities that Life magazine documented. 2. **"Our Fresh Air Fund"**: A charitable fundraising list showing donations collected for sending urban children to the countryside—a common early 20th-century progressive initiative to improve children's health through outdoor exposure. 3. **"Correct" cartoon**: Depicts a visitor asking Connecticut children what state they're in. When told "Liri's Farm," the visitor corrects them—the joke being these children, sent from cities for fresh air, don't know their actual location, only their temporary rural destination. The satire gently mocks both the children's disconnect from geography and perhaps the well-intentioned but somewhat sheltered nature of charitable "fresh air" programs.
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HE HATES A DISSEMBLER You'Re A LIAR!” The Mazy Path ERY few people have time for re- ligion. It is a. profession, like everything else of importance. Who ex- cept the man who has devoted his life to it can expect properly to thread the mys tic mazes of intellectualistic polytheism, iranscendental anthropomorphism, mono- theistic materialism, dualistic spiritual- , entitative eschatology, homiletic ver balism, interpretative theological belli- AT UFE’'S FARM cosity, modernistic get-ihe-moneyism, av thoritative next-to-the-thronism and just Our Fresh Air Fund tole igs ey Se plain ordinary trying to do right? Previcusly acknowledsed and Marion Gilford, assisted by The only way is to have an absolute Clarence Co Tbull.... : 22 jee arene” : ae ‘ees working knowledge of Noah Webster, Mrs. A. RD Wright Shae $ Sgi00' Toe Brown"... ereeeen 1 000 and then you're wrong, “In Memory of Live's Best Frie 5.00 Ray, Ogden and Tod eeeeee 25.00 Dickinsot.ccseeeeeeeee 00 KT 1160 Works of Art Are Free! Sale at Hewitt Tak MR Bile eed tender IX the new tariff bill works of art D. ‘Ryer ‘ twenty years old are on the free list Mary PB. Carlisle. aren That is a great significant gain for COvetionecsentccasicecseremene American culture; a true mark of prog * Sherrill " S ress in our civilization. The concession $s. was made carly in the history of the ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS. bill, public opinion supported it, and roe rte i through all vicissitudes it persisted. The Richard pao Like PANES body tried very hard to throw it out: people had come to know better, It is Looking for nities, ‘birch nmin’ seed@aoe More than a quarter of a century since money Jennie ire (in May, 1883) published a cartoon Dear father and mother over in the coun. UTSIRZ the abolition of the duty on ees aT he tage Sour works of art. It has urged it ever since, bony a cisse as have many other faithful servants of Coivect civilization, and at last it has come. It is one of the bright spots in a mea time si d to have come for it. Ne We are having go out VISITOR at Branchville asked a ; ure that has none too many of them. It group of children the other day will not relieve the consumer much, nor reduce the cost of living; but it will help to increase the profit and pleasure of if they knew what State they were in, They answered “Connecticut.” Then he asked: . American life, so that even though w= “What is the capital of Connecti- pay as much as ever to live we shall get a little more life for our money. cut?" A dozen voices at once responded, and “ stor, SIR! 1 ALLOW NO ONE TO SMACK MY with emphasis “Lare’s Farm!" éiitepaee” Paty is but the by-product of pleasure. comicbooks.com