Life, 1914-09-10 · page 8 of 48
Life — September 10, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Left side:** A fundraising list for "Life's Fresh Air Fund" (established 1913), detailing donations for children's camps. Below is an illustration titled "Nightmare of a Man Who Never Tried Spaghetti Before"—a surreal, grotesque image depicting tangled spaghetti as nightmarish creatures, likely satirizing both the unfamiliar nature of Italian cuisine to some Americans and anxieties about "foreign" foods. **Right side:** An illustrated scene of children playing outdoors (captioned "Yah! Butter-Fingers!") accompanies an essay on "Conventions." The text humorously defines conventions as gatherings where people exchange misinformation while pretending to accomplish progress. The accompanying quote satirizes the transient nature of such events, suggesting people must frequently relocate—mocking the convention circuit's superficiality.
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424 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1913, Lire’s Fas Aix Fuxo has been in operation twenty-seven years, In that time it has expended $145,183.64 and has given @ fortnight in the country 0 35.751 poor city children. The Fund is supported eni quests and voluntary contributions, are acknowledged in this columm Previonsly acknowledged ely by bee which +$5,981.95 : ‘00 Sleight’ of Haud » held by two small boys: T. Kingsley Salmon and Lucien I, Tribus of Staten Island FW. M. “In memory of Wilmar Miss J. G. Hollenbach In memory of E. I’, G. Offering 1 Matthew's i ing, W. Va.. © service in camp d boys of St rel of Wheel y communion x their out ing SS Proceeds of ‘sale of ‘apples and vtier things held © at Rennebunla port, . by Wilma Adler, of New Josephine Weed, ‘of Phila sand Juliet Frank, of Savanna, Gi 2.60 Madelaine, ‘Eugene, MHarold, “Maude and Bertram ...\.. $.00 10.00 $6,086.65 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Two packages of games from Cynthia . Goodwin, Lawrence Park West, Bronxville, N. Y. Four boxcs clothing, girls’ and boys’ hats and caps and raincoat and undet wear from Adelaide, Harold, Helen Isa- Delle, Marjorie Lucille and Esther Sylvia Gottlieb, of Ridgefield, Conn. Transportation for two hundred and seventeen children and fourteen adults, to Ridgefield and Aetacee duly 4th; from Dr. W. H. Allee, of Ridgefield, Conn. NIGHTMARE OF A MAN WHO NEVER TRIED SPAGHETTI BEFORE “yan! BUTTER-FINGERS |” Conventions CONVENTION is a body of people gathered together for the main purpose of exchanging misinformation, and the incidental purpose of preventing any intelli- gent result from being arrived at. Every convention is composed of delegates, and, owing to some illu- sion of the mind, every delegate firmly believes that by attending the convention he will not only learn something himself. but will be materially aiding progress. That neither of these results is achieved by any convention more than once in a century does not deter the hopeful delegates, Conventions are fostered by rail- roads, hotel-keepers and town publicity burea It is presumed that when a town is big enough to have conventions held in it, it is on the road to pros- perity. In reality, this usually marks the highest point in its bonded indebt- edness and vice. Conventions accomplish two things: they satisfy man’s gregariousness, and perpetuate the time-honored maxim that where ignorance is’ bliss ‘tis folly to remain at home, “TUST as we begin to feel settled we may have to move again,” said Alsace to Lorraine, \