Life, 1911-10-19 · page 12 of 48
Life — October 19, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **two separate cartoon/literary pieces**, not a unified political cartoon: 1. **"Life's Fresh Air Fund"** (left): A report on charitable fundraising for a children's camp program, with financial accounting. The accompanying illustration shows children playing outdoors. 2. **"In Loco Parentis"** (bottom left): A humorous cartoon depicting what appears to be a bureaucratic or institutional figure managing children, satirizing institutional care or guardianship. 3. **"A Spectre," "A Helpful Hint"** (right): Two brief literary pieces—one poetic, one a comedic dialogue between office workers about workplace jargon and communication. The page mixes philanthropic reporting with light satirical humor about institutions and workplace absurdities. No clear political figures are caricatured; the satire targets social institutions and bureaucratic language generally.
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636 -LIFE- Life’s Fresh Air Fund HE time has come for Lire to report on its steward ship of the funds which its readers so generously in trust to it for the maintenance of the Fresh Air Fund. Our guests this season have numbered 1,007 and each of them has had a fortnight’s visit to the farm at a cost to the Fund of $3.70, including transportation, There have heen some unusual es s that are also included in this figure. Among them are the cost of second-hand automobile for the transportation of freight, and we have had to pay three cents more than formerly h child and six cents more pens ior the transportation of for the transportation of ¢ The following from the report of the manager of the | Farm may interest our readers: ach adult, We had also to replace many of our double blankets. sheets and. pillow cases with new ones. : You will recall that the first two weeks of the present sea es i son were backward and quite cold, and the last two weeks ty | | cry wet and stormy. Notwithstanding these conditions, our anh en | clildren were without colds or couhs and they all played | well, ate well and slept well, and generally were no trouble . | yell Hel well and lept well, and general ¢ MORE THAN THEY COULD BEAR a We are bi ginning to wonder now if a youngster can get THEY PLANTED SEED THAT CAME UP AND KEALLY | HE eee atte accitlents; No complaints. | HAD LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS JUST AS THE CAT ' U. 0. Mowx ALOGUE SAID September 28, 1901. The season opened June 27 and closed Sept, 3. The re- receipts and expenditures follows : A Spectre T' stalks the vampire form that we call Busine: Ofttimes he marches by, comely, well favored, pros perous, ; Oftener still, grizzly, but suave, lean-fingered, double-faced . . oo GEE: And in his path some fatten, others—millions—crouch in the 1 StaEy Pune 381.62 dust $acipq AD _strive and claw and fight for opportunity to live; And ever behind his steely ribs you may discern The grinning soul of greed Will Herford. i A Helpful Hint “TUST a moment, breathlessly says the man with the 873.05 weary whiskers and the undecided hair to the pale hireling who is toiling at his desk. “Just a moment. 1 y time to dash in and out on my way to lunch wece 1 at close of season, 1910 Story Fund (Invested). 017.64 PNPENSES Help. er Repairs Miscellaneous expenses ance on hand ber 28, 4 have bare but a little idea occurred to me, and I thought I would tell it to you. It may make the burden of the day’s labor easier ior you, and “What is it?” asks the pale hireling, stopping in the middle of a sentence that he knows he never will be able to finish writing now. “T's merely a little bon mot, or something of that sort You can dress it up to suit yourself, you know. I nev was much of a hand for language. It is thiss * Why is a bell buoy on the ocean like a bell boy in a fashionable hotel?"” are both Because,” barks the pale hircling, tipped by the swells.” When the man with the weary whiskers departs ti: pale hireling gives the office boy a quarter to drop a bottle of ink from the window on his head. 0 PARENTIS * comicbookMeun