Life, 1915-09-30 · page 10 of 45
Life — September 30, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct items: 1. **Life's Fresh Air Fund** - An announcement about a charitable organization operating for 24 years, listing donors and contributions. 2. **"The Senile Youngling"** - A poem by A.L. Salmon expressing melancholic reflection on aging and lost youth. The speaker laments becoming withdrawn and cynical, mourning "boyhood's buoyancy" and complaining that "advanced unmmentioned years" of adulthood lack the "effervescence" of youth. 3. **"A Summer Widower"** - A humorous brief exchange between Mrs. Cranshaw and Mrs. Gawper about house management during vacation, with the joke being that only the wine cellar went uncleaned. The bottom illustration titled "The Harvest-Home" depicts people with luggage, likely relating to vacation/travel themes. This is primarily literary and humorous content rather than political satire.
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Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1915, Lire’s Fas Air Fuxo has been in operation twenty-eight years. In that time it has expended $150,987.58 and has given a fortnight in the country to 36.767 poor city children, The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which ere oc knowledged in this column, Hl pay lf Previously acknowledged ......... $7.385.89 Elizabeth, Barbara and Eleanor Burditt, Newton Centre, Mass... 30.00 Henry Spadone ........ oe 25.00 Proceeds of a play given by ti V et C Society, composed of the children at Kathmere Inn, Sound Conn. Those who took part Beatrice Rhoades, Constance gs, Elizabeth Schaeffler, Jos- A. Schaeffler, Lambert Bar . Howard R. Sherman, Jr., Jack McEwen, Robert Siering and Teddy Rhoades . ++ 18.00 Mary E. S. Bassett s.sccces 2.00 I Gel hae i S71 $7,463.60 Hy ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Fifteen baseball bats, twelve leather belts for boys, seventeen white duck outing hats from Alex. Taylor & Co., Inc., New York. A Summer Widower RS. CRABSHAW: How did your husband take care of the house ation ? room while you were away on your Mrs. Gaynoy: The only cleaned out was the wine cellar. fa The Senile Youngling USED to cultivate a mood Of meditative melancholy, And, like an ancient sage, would brood On human folly. 1 moaned about my mystic past In mournful elegiac writing, And buried youthful fancies fast With much inditing. To each portentous year that sped I paid obituary honor; My soul lay sepulchred—I shed Dead leaves upon her, I felt life had no further page Of interest, tragic or pictorial. All was an aching void: my age Was immemorial. Emerged from youth's senility, So grey and grimly antedated, I feel that boyhood’s buoyancy Is over-rated. Advanced unmentioned years to-day, With all a youngster's effervescence, This duteous epitaph I pay To adolescence. A, L. Salmon. SP, THE HARVEST- HOME