Life, 1919-02-27 · page 26 of 38
Life — February 27, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page documents LIFE magazine's charitable fundraising for **war orphans** from World War I. The magazine had collected over $318,000 and distributed nearly 1.8 million francs to Paris for orphan care. They're now seeking donors to **renew support for two more years** for children already in the program. The two illustrations are humorous vignettes about social change: 1. **Top cartoon**: A former elevator operator is embarrassed when his old employer unexpectedly asks for his job back—suggesting post-war employment instability. 2. **Bottom cartoon**: "Uncle Jim" asks a soldier if other soldiers helped win the war. The answer reveals the soldier's girlfriend now spends her time studying international affairs (the League of Nations) rather than attending baseball games—satirizing how women's interests shifted during/after WWI toward serious world politics. The final line references **Ignacy Jan Paderewski**, the famous Polish pianist and statesman, playing his role in post-war peace negotiations ("soothe the savage Pole").
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LIFE Keeping Them Along IFE’S interest at pres- ent is not so much in securing funds to add to the number of war orphans on our list as to secure the renewed maintenance for two years of the children who have already been aided through the gener- osity of Lire’: the majority of cases the s readers. In original contributors are renewing, but in some in- stances they are unable to do so. We should like to have the option of apply- ing new contributions to another two years for chil- dren already listed. Lire has received, in all, $318,721.68, from which 1,783,476.75 francs have heen remitted to Paris. a ¢ from Red Cross A\ natn Nos. 3639 and 3640. for Raby No, 36 73 SERIOUS EMBARRASSMENT OF OUR FORMER ELEVATOR-MAN UPERINTENDENT FOR HIS OLD JoR, of Alice R. "hala New York City, ass of the Presbyterian § Westminster Bible Class 3 he First. Presby ter M kirls in Room 5 Fast Liverpool, Some Job What became of that girl you used to take to the ball games, the one to whom you used to try to explain the different i She now keeps me busy trying > her understand of the seas and the League of Na “UNCLE JIM, WEKE T OTHER SOLDIERS MUCH MELP TO YOU IN WINNING THE war?" ADEREWSKI soothe the savage Pole. comicbooks.com