Life, 1915-10-21 · page 8 of 52
Life — October 21, 1915 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Life magazine page contains three distinct content sections: 1. **"Life's Fresh Air Fund"** - A fundraising appeal listing donations, appearing to be charitable work. 2. **"The Great Gift of Publicity"** - A satirical piece praising a woman (Mrs. Boissevain) who uses press attention to advocate for pacifism and anti-war positions. The satire mock-celebrates her as a "self-advertiser" comparable to Bryan, Josephus, and Ford—public figures who gained fame through self-promotion. The piece ironically suggests her activism is primarily about personal publicity rather than genuine conviction. 3. **Lower sections** include a small cartoon labeled "Typographically Speaking" showing figures in period dress, plus articles about Dean Van Amringe's funeral and "The Great Blessing" regarding Rev. Charles Eaton's wartime sermon broadcast. The page reflects WWI-era debates over pacifism versus patriotism, mocking activists while covering cultural/religious responses to the war.
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736 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged $7,472.86 “ Cottage Services, Can: Lake, N.Y. 40.00 “jy. A. B. 10.00 1.00 $7,523.86 The Great Gift of Publicity MRS, BOISSEVAIN COULD STOP WAR—GIVEN AID OF PRESS, WOULD TURN NA- TIONS TO PEACE IN MONTH, SHE SAYS—ITALY BARRED HER FOR PACIFIST VIEWS— HAD TO REGISTER AS DUTCH SUBJECT, OWING TO HUSBAND'S NATIONALITY, BEFORE SAILING. Head-lines in the Tribune. LESS the woman! What a wonderful self-advertiser she is! Right in the class with Jennings Bryan, Josephus and Henry Ford! What is there about these souls that are forever breaking out from be- hind a cloud just where the moon rays shit?) What was her name? Mc—Mil—Milholland ; that was it; Inez Milholland, feminist and suf- fragist, and now married and a pac- ifist, and always to beat the very loudest band! What a gift! And never has to have her diamonds stolen or be kid- naped in a taxicab or any of those trite old subterfuges. Go back to Europe, Madam Inez; take Bill and Henry with you at Henry's cost (it is a kindness to spend a little of his money), and the ink-shed for you three will drown out the blood- shed of that ravaged continent. TYPOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING SCOTCH ROMAN AND A CHIC FIGURE Magazine Heroine: sin! 10W DARE YOU CARESS ME, YOU DON'T BELONG IN THE STORY AT ALL! OH, NO—BUT I'M THE ‘GENTLE READER.’ Dean Van Amringe and His Funeral T was a pity that a man so cheery, kind, competent and universally popular as Dean Van Amringe should have died. To be sure, he was eighty years old, but he had neither lost in- terest nor ceased to excite it. If he could have lived to see the war out he would probably have liked that, and if he could have lived to read in the Sun (Sept. 24) John J. Chapman's word-picture of his funeral in Trinity Church he would certainly have en- joyed it very much. Anybody must feel complimented whose funeral is written up in an enjoyable manner. Mr. Chapman's write-up of Dean Van Amringe’s fu- neral was a wonder: something to cut out and put in a scrap book The Great Blessing HERE is something typically min- isterial in the statement of the ‘ev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton that “this war is the greatest blessing that has fallen upon mankind since the German Reformation.” This sermon ought to be scattered broadcast over Belgium and distributed in all countries to par- ents of youths who have been maimed and murdered for the glory of the Kaiser. comicbooks.com