Life, 1913-08-28 · page 8 of 40
Life — August 28, 1913 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct elements: 1. **Life's Fresh Air Fund** - A charitable fundraising column listing donations to help poor city children, with contributions ranging from $1 to $100. 2. **"His Last Day of Vacation"** - A photograph showing a couple in an intimate moment outdoors, apparently their final day before returning to regular life. 3. **Two opinion pieces**: "Evidence" (a poem by Ralph Bacon about a woman's emotional distress) and "Rather Hard on the Boys" (an editorial from March 31, 1911, defending vaccination against typhoid fever, arguing that despite boys being "powerless as hospital patients," vaccination remains medically sound and questioning why military recruitment is slow). The page mixes charitable appeals, sentimental romance imagery, and public health advocacy typical of early-20th-century Life magazine's satirical-but-civic-minded approach.
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340 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1912, Lirn’s resi Atr eFunb has been in operation twenty-six years. In that time it has expended $139,304.44 and has given a fortnight in the country to 34,748 poor city children. The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which are acknowledged in this colum Previously acknowledged In memory of Dz “Wm. AON, Jn occ Children of Kimogenor Point.. Offering taken at 6 a. st. service during camp life by the little boys of St. Matthew's Church Choir, of Wheeling, W. Va.. Sherrill .. ast as In loving memory of Frank Jackson by his mother... “17 Battery Place” M. P. E. T. Nichols, 3rd . W. ¥ + +$5,442.07 + 28.00 10.00 20.00 3:50 10.00 10.00 100.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 100.00 5.00 1.00 $.00 25.00 10.00 5.70 $.00 10.00 25.00 1.00 25.00 Miss Agnes J. “A drop in the bucket L. Gordon Hamersley. $5,853.27 Postals From the Farm Dear Mother: 1 am feeling well and hope to hear the same from you. I have not received one card or letter yet and please write. I am going to bring apples home and I am bathing every day. Iam getting good meals and I sleep every night very scoundly. Iam very tan. I will be home next Tuesday. Regards from all from your loving Son Dear Mother, I am having a fine time. I have one of Edwards old shoes here. My soles are coming off. 680 kisses. From Chas. SON (in depart- 1 want to look at OLORED F ment store) : a pahr ob silk stockin’s fo’ a lady. Sateswoman (nonchalantly): What size and color? “Lordy, gal! Is you blind?” HIS LAST DAY OF VACATION Evidence AY after day she stands With aching back, her busy hands Smoothing the silks and laces fair She does not wear. ight after night she climbs up to her barren cell, Whose dingy walls foretell The drawn-out torture of the future years. She shudders, and her frightened tears, Flooding the roses of her skin, Turn it to parchment, wan and thin. And then— We call together sleck and prosperous men, Fat-jowled and double-chinned, To find out why the girl has sinned! Ralph Bacon. Rather Hard on the Boys Dr. H. Boucher, in Le Médicin, March 31, 1913, ‘on “ Vaccination Against Typhoid Fever,” says: “We regret. to declare that nothing, absolutely nothing, in medical litera: ture permits the independent physi- cian to. afirm that vaccination against typhoid has ever exer- cised, no matter under what cir- cumstances and in whatever part of the globe, the smallest beneficial influence on the progress of typhoid fever."—London Zoophilist. UT the United States Army and Navy have already been thor- oughly vaccinated. The boys protested, of course, but in Dr. Serum's hands they are as powerless as hospital pa- tients, Is this one reason why recruits are slow in coming forward? comicbooks.com