Life, 1917-08-16 · page 8 of 40
Life — August 16, 1917 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces: **"Life's Fresh Air Fund"** (top left): A fundraising list for sending city children to the countryside for health and recreation. **"Our Pekinese Home Defense"** (center cartoon): A satirical illustration showing a woman and five soldiers in military gear alongside a small Pekinese dog. The caption suggests absurdist humor about home defense during wartime—the tiny ornamental dog is presented as part of the nation's defense strategy. This likely mocks both overblown civilian "home defense" preparations and the contrast between serious military efforts and domestic, civilian responses to war. **"Sammy Brown"** and **"Favored of the Muses"** (right): Brief literary pieces—a poem about a grocer's clerk and a satirical exchange about literature versus commerce. The page reflects WWI-era American concerns about civilian participation in the war effort.
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“LIFE Life’s Fresh Air Fund Live's Fersit thas expe iS 0 Inclusive of 19 thirty years. In that time a fortnight mm th The Fund is s tions, which are acknow acknowledged . i Niargarct Wedd Margaret Woddrop Frederic and Theo e I. Tei Marsha ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Package of hats, shoes, stockings and dresses for children from Mrs. J. D, Rankin, Hartford, Conn, pers for yirls, seventeen Fifteen pairs of blouses and r union suits, fifteen pairs pants for boys, fifteen shirtwaists and twelve union suits—all new—from Mrs, W. S. Rodie, South Orange Package of boys Edw. H_ Bridge, Albany, N. thing and sweaters from Mrs, Washington CONSIDERABLE proportion of the energies of Washington are still con- centrated in carrying on the war, notwithstanding appre the work of downing Hoover, beating the food bill, the draft bill and frustrating generally the best efforts of the administration, Democracies, Mr. Root says, are always in trouble. That is true, and more polite than to say that on the side-lines of every democracy there is a skunk farm. Must it be, do you suppose, that the world cannot be made safe for democ- racy without also making it safe for skunks? ble diversions to UN Does he get his mechanical ingenuity from his father’s side or his mother's? Bess: From his mother’s; she was a poctess! OUR PEKINGESE HOME DEFENSE “HERE, MAVEN'T YE ANY MANNERS HOWLIN’ LIKE DAT WHEN at's TRYIN’ TO THUNDER?” Sammy Brown ONSIDER Brown, the grocer’s clerk He had a quarrel with the light of his life. the case of mmy She called him a brute. He called her a heartless flirt And declared that she had blighted his life forevermore He enlisted It took the hollow out of his chest The stoop out of his back His skin cleared and his eyes bright- ened. The girls flocked around him, He could have his pick. Jane got wise. She told Sammy the hammock still swung on the front porch for him. He wanted nothing more to do with her. He told her so. Fickle Sammy Brown! James Gabelle. Favored of the Muses S made millions out of litera- ture” “A best seller, ch?” “No; he owns a paper mill.” comicbook a