Life, 1918-11-21 · page 25 of 34
Life — November 21, 1918 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page documents **Life magazine's Christmas charity drive for French war orphans**, likely from 1917-1918. The three accompanying illustrations show children's fantasies contrasting with wartime reality. The top cartoon depicts a child dreaming of flying an airplane ("Whip Behind!"). The middle illustration shows a child sitting alone on a beach, captioned "His Father Would Never Let Him Have an Air Rifle"—referencing a father killed in combat. The bottom image shows a child imagining where "the folks would like to be"—a happy family scene the war has destroyed. The appeal seeks $1 donations per child to buy toys from wounded soldiers and garments from war-widowed women, creating "double work of help." The satirical point is implicit: wealthy American readers can afford to cheer orphaned children while American soldiers' own families suffer similar losses. The listed donors (mostly women's names) suggest women's organizations led the fundraising effort.
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BABY NUMBER 3332 R. M. W., Mohonk Lake, No Ve.seeeeeeee Proceeds from children’s sale at Gearhart, Oregon PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO CHILDREN This coming Christmas will be a memorable one to France. The little children who are the wards of Lirr’s generous readers will have the sadness of their lot empha- sized by contrast with that of other children whose fathers have not been taken from them as victims of the war. To cheer these orphans, to bring into their lives a bit of Christmas joy is the object of Lire’s Christmas Fund. From Paris we are advised that the gifts will be pur- chased and distributed by a committee consisting of La Maxguise pe Ganay, Manaate Waporxctox, Mavame Coxon, La Conttesse Pititipre D'ALSACE, Mrs. Morton J. Henry, Mrs. Oscar Crosny, Mute, pe Moxtatorr, Mute. Dinter. One dollar for each will buy and deliver to the thirty- jour hundred children on our list at Christmas a toy and a useful garment. The toys will be bought from wounded soldiers, and the garments from women reduced by the war to earning their own livelihood. Thus every dollar does a double work of help to those who sadly need it. Present contributions make an average of fifty-two cents for each child. Will you not help to make it a dollar? For the babies Lire gratefully acknowledges from Roth Anne Santley, Columbus, Ohio... ssseeeenesnee recs ces In loving memory of Clarence Wheelock, late Volunteer ambur lance driver in France. +...++.+ ee ae Miss Laura Jeanne Hudneli, Hamlet, * For Sister,” Westfield, N. ‘Jes... .: laura Love’ Thompson, Greensboro. N’ J, Warrant Castleman, Rochester, N: ¥. Eames, New York’ City F. W. McNeal, Philadelphia. Pa Sarah’ W. Ward, Vermilion, 8, D. Gene Stratton Porter, Ror Miss, “Anna Willet, Cleveland, Uareiet, Barbara and Dorothea Bentley, Richard A. Parker, Denver, Colo, PL. C. Butler, Pa jhrthor Reeve, F., Washington, : “GY. Lansing, ‘Albany, NY. : Mrs. C! 0.” Canfield,’ Ls Angeles. Cal : — Miss M. Giraud, Tampico, Mexico. an Olive ‘and Dorothy Lewis, Joliet, The Roys’ Junior Red Cross Club of the Bernard Branch, Public, Library, Detroit, Mich...+.+++ de Spelder, Bay ‘City, Mich.. Evanston, ‘Ill. aes P.,’New Brighton, S. T. Winifred” W. Windle, Millbury, Mass. Herbert F. Goodrich, Lowa City, Towa... W. Eugene Kimball, New York City... Ward, Orange, N. J. ; McConaughey, Parkersburg, W.'V S. Hadley, Lucy I. Hadley, Marie Hadley and Bessie Hadley. Youngstown, Ohio........ ank Hehr, Shamokin, Pa. Mary P. Hoopes, Glenna Fatis, N: Anonymous, Walpole, H Cr "Duby, La Jolla, Cal... 200: Vrank Beckwith, Oakley, Idaho...) \ Friend, Parkersburg, 'W. _Va..... Mrs. DP. Lamoreux, Brantford, Onta Mr. and Mrs. Albert’ M. Creighton, L A awyer, Waterloo, ebster, Mass. HIS FATHER WOULD NEVER LET HIM HAVE AN AIR RIFLE Memory_of Nancy.” Brookline, Mass Florence C,, Perkins, New. York’ City. ; Boston, Mass. Mrs. J. Harold Kulp, Germantown, Philadeiphia, Pa. l12)0.! in Siaty Quo Club Lynn, Mass csens WHERE THE FOLKS WOULD LIKE To DE Richard Stockton White, “Narberth, "Bal. *- ary oulton, Meeker, Colo, oe 2 Man 5 a s I. Junkin, Lexington, Va....ces00seee2 way 8 Fae Dewees Wee eae Sie a ee BE Pe tas" Angeles: Ga ae ward ec, farren, Pa. tees . Already ack: jedged .. 6 Flizabeth McFarland, Syracuse, NoW.0000000 III SER OMIEIESS, " meen aeees Anonymous, Marshall, Texas... $1767.38 comicbooks.com