Life — December 5, 1918 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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830 Christmas Life In the Spirit of Christmas, the Children’s Feast UST now Lire is not thinking of the children of the rich, Dbounteously supplied with gifts and comforts, but, un- seasonable as it may seem, of the children of the city poor and of their unhappy lot in the stifling heat of summer. That Christmas is the season of gifts and that Christmas is the feast of the children, brings into combination the thought that a peculiarly happy gift to someone, or in memory of someone, is a Fresh Air dowment. The ood done by these endowments is done when the heat of summer is a curse to the little ones living in the sweltering tene- ments with no breezes to stir or cool the bad air they have to breathe, Each en- dowment takes one of these chil- dren every sum- mer, in all the summers to come, away from these surroundings and into. the country, where a fortnight’s stay in the fresh air, a fortnight of good food and happy surroundings builds them up physi- cally, mentally and morally to endure what they have to endure during the other weeks of the AT THE SPRING Have you not in mind one whose name you would like to have for all time some- coupled with such an accomplishment of helpfulness to little children ? To establish a Fresh Air Endow- ment two hundred dollars in Loan 4!4-per-cent. Liberty bonds should be sent’ by registered mailto Live's Fresh Nir Fund, Ine. 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City 1 income frour this amount pro- vides that every summer, in perpe- tity, a poor child will be sent from the ms of New York for a fort night’s stay in the i fresh r of the SOME OF “LIFE’S GUESTS country. This work has now been carried on for thirty-one rs, in which time more than forty thousand children have gained health and happiness from it A Fresh Air Endowment may hear any desig: nits donor From a War Worker's Dictionary, Washington, D. C. PARTMENT. by landlords, sub-leases and outrageous rentals Aprerite. An imaginary unit of rooms surrounded An undesirable attribute which takes nearly all of one’s pay check to satisfy Breav. A more or less—mostly less—palatable mixture of rice, oats, cornmeal and wheat, the virtue of which lies in bulk, weight and relative cheapness. CAFETERIA Any old residence between the Treasury and the Mall, masquerading as a restaurant. The musticr the more atmosphere. Cinvarey. Something you brought with you to Wash ington and used about two weeks in jammed street ca Corcoran Canterx. The best place to eat if you draw three thousand dollars per annum. Called by some officer friends the “Jesse James” because it is such a hold-up. from out in Wash- Curkk, Goversatent. The ambitious girl West, down South, or up North, arriving daily ington to help “Win the War.” Stree Car System. There is none Fooo Apainistration. Where Hoover eats. Where anyone else who can blu the doorkeeper can get a decent luncheon for thirty-five cents. That gaunt feeling more indulged in in Wash- ington than ever in the comfortable days hack home. Lines, Staxpinc. That column of impatient govern- ment clerks and civilians prefacing all goals worth while; Huncer. seen at lunchrooms, movies, church parties, swimming pools, glove counters and ten-cent stores. Orpranxce Orricers. swivelian officers, desk cooties. In reality, men who are spending more than their incomes, jostled, ridi- ed, for the privilege of performing prosaic and essential routine. Paver Bac. Defined by a foreign diplomat as the most striking feature of the daily procession’ of war workers. Contains the inevitable sandwich, an orange and a cookic Potomac Park Facing War College, the cleverest strategic spot for lovers in motors in the world. Rooms. Next to impossible to locate, and impossible to exist in when discovered Unirorm. Any sort of a tailored garment which can be worn in this blasé capital without attracting a second glance. Wasuinctox. The melting-pot of the United States: Headquarters for the World. Popular synonyms, typewriter heroes, ceuled and overchai comicbooks.com