Life, 1910-05-12 · page 14 of 44
Life — May 12, 1910 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **two distinct satirical pieces**: 1. **"To You, Personally"** (top): A fundraising appeal for Life magazine's Fresh Air Farm, a charitable program providing summer breaks for 1,000+ underprivileged children from New York and Brooklyn missions annually. The text emphasizes safety and modest cost ($5.31 per child), soliciting donations. 2. **"Overcautious"** (bottom): Satirizes Madame Cavalieri's engagement to ex-Sheriff Robert Chanler. The joke mocks her pragmatic (rather than romantic) approach to marriage—she explicitly states she doesn't love him but sees marriage as "necessary," and crucially, she's marrying in New York (not Italy) because New York permits divorce. The satire ridicules her coldly calculating attitude, viewing marriage as a reversible contract rather than a romantic commitment. The caption about the trolley line and aphorisms about morality add cynical commentary on modern relationships.
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874 “LIFE: To You, Personally S the season approaches for opening Lire’s Fresh Air Farm we sincerely trust the friends who have helped us during past years, including yourself, may remember us again. The cost per child, including transportation, last season was $5.31 for the entire fortnight, and this modest expenditure brings to our youthful guests a sure return in happiness and improved health. Not a cent is wasted. Every dollar helps. Last year we entertained one thousand and nineteen chil- dren, in parties of two hundred each, from the closing of school in June until it re-opened in September. The children are from the city missions in New York and Brooklyn. No needy child is refused save for good cause. Our farm at Branchville, in the hills of western Connecti- cut, is open to visitors at all times, and if you will come and see it you will be a welcome guest. The children are never out of the caretaker’s presence, and among the twenty-nine thousand children we have entertained there has been neither accident nor ill- ness of serious nature during twenty-three years. Remittance may be made payable to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund. Should you again care to help us your assistance will be appreciated. Overcautious You can bet I have not Jost my head. I,am not sen- timentally in love with him, I like him and hope that ours will be a happy union. I bee lieve that love is unneces- sory in marriage. Although Iam not marry. ing with the idea of divorc I would not marry in Ital, where there is no divorce Jaw. It is comforting to feet that there is an open door. Ss° Madame Cavalieri, as reported in a le message from Paris FEW ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED ON THF UJIJI TROLLEY LINE SINCE NATIVE MOTOR MEN HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED to the Sun, discussing her engagement to = making in these days with this timely ex-Sheriff Robert Chanler, of Duchess consideration of the open door? County. No, Madame Cavalicri has not lost her head. She is walking into the mat- OME are born good, some make rimonial noose with her eyes wide open, good, and others are caught with 2s becomes a lady of experience, and she the goods. wants the noose to have every modern improvement, including the reversible knot. But isn’t she just a grain overcau- tious? Perhaps she remembers that Sheriff Bob's recent civil employment was keep- ing a jail, but there never was a pleas- anter or more homelike jail nor a sheriff on more affectionate terms with his in- mates. It does not seem properly flattering to the ex-sheriff that the lady should take comfort in the thought of the open door. It sounds not ominous exactly, but ali- monious, A RIRD ON THE HAT IS WORTIL TWO IN My, my! Are there many marriages COLD STORAGE comicbooks.com