Life, 1915-09-02 · page 10 of 48
Life — September 2, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Upper section:** A charity fund listing for "Life's Fresh Air Fund," documenting donations to send children to the country for health benefits. The donations range from small amounts ($1) to larger gifts ($25.26), suggesting a community fundraising effort for working-class children's welfare. **Lower cartoon:** Titled "Cheese It, Misses! Here Comes a Cop!" depicts children playing street games (appears to be marbles or similar) while a policeman approaches. The humor relies on the period's common scene of street children scattering when authorities appeared—reflecting anxieties about urban youth, public space usage, and law enforcement attitudes toward poor children's play. The juxtaposition suggests Life magazine's interest in both charitable concerns and social commentary regarding urban childhood and poverty.
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410 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 19tg Live's Farsi Air Fuxp has been in operation twenty-eight years. In that time it has expended $150,987.58 amd has given a fortnight in the country to 36,767 poor city children, The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which are ac knowledged im this column, Previously acknowledged .........$6,2 Mrs. Harry Hobson .. 5.09 Margaret E. Woddrop": TInt foo. Mrs. Thos. McCroskey s.00 “Peter” a 100.00 Miss M. R.Sheaman’: 260 Mrs. H. M. Bennett jon 3.09 Le Mb... beeen 10.09 THE BEACH-COMBER E. P. G. Perey III Southbridge, Mass. . seeeees A Speci 1 Co: * Oa abe ree ‘ oe iY jw Churehit BF 3 ae 5 G.E a Outed ao : . Camp ‘Abena Girls siteseseesenties HE New Jerscy saburban society Miss May E. Young... : From New Mexico 21.2. leader called to her side her be trusted husband and said: Hughes Bryant segse John G. Alley... Chas. A, Dean 02022000 Robert T. Dodds - ; : ‘ . lames Crowell ... i wae Proceeds of a fair given by the “Put on your blue coat and white +S. MeAnulty 2000202000000) s young settlement workers of A Friend ..... * Greenwood Lake, consisting of flannel trousers and be ready to leave ‘Anonymous, from Savannah, Ga... Grace Duffy, age 11; Rertha Freed . oni Was Cann. ‘ 0 man, age 12; Isabelle Shorter, for the country club to-night at 8: 7 BBE Oe sien “Yes, darling.” Frank Waiker : . . BGs Be seeises so Gs ba “To-morrow night there will be a Walter, B. Paschall : - ” dance at the Smithtels’, supper at mid- night. We leave at nine.” “Very well, pet.” “The following night a hospital bridge party at the school hall. At : midnight you will be called upon by the Faward White » : cK chairman to recite your famous parody Ac J. Everest oc .cscecscecesoess package of clothing from Mrs. on ‘Bingen on the Rhine.’ Better go ‘Anonymous 20.02.0205 + 7! RW Bennett, South Orange, N. J. over it beforehand.” “Very well, precious.” “Thursday night we dine at the Gasbingers’. Be ready at 6:30.” “T will, sweetheart. “Saturday night there is a moving- picture and welsh-rarebit combination entertainment. You will serve on the icab committee.” All right, dearie. “Sunday night I shall he busy with my correspondence, so you can employ ‘the evening in cleaning up my golf clubs.” “Delighted, love. But——” He paused timidly. “Tt won't take me more than half an hour to clean the clubs. Would you mind, sugar plum, if on that eve- ning I went to bed at 9:30?” Then she smiled sternly and shook her finger at him. “This once. But remember that you are not to ask it again until the winter solstice sets in, I can’t have you get- ting into bad habits.” “CHEESE IT, Missus! MERE comes A cop!” TL MM comicbooks.com