Life, 1919-06-12 · page 20 of 46
Life — June 12, 1919 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical cartoons and articles about early 1900s social concerns. **Top cartoon** ("Can Such Things Be?"): A woman objects to her portrait, complaining the artist hasn't made her look fat enough—mocking vanity and society women's bizarre aesthetic preferences or self-delusion about their appearance. **Bottom cartoon** ("The Bridegroom Looks Nervous"): A nervous groom at the altar is reassured that his anxiety is normal since he hasn't been married in nearly a year—implying infidelity or casual remarriage attitudes among wealthy society men. **Articles**: The page promotes Life's Fresh Air Endowment, a charitable program sending poor urban children to the countryside for summer stays. It lists memorial donations and solicits contributions, positioning the magazine as a civic-minded institution concerned with child welfare and public health—a common Progressive Era concern about urban poverty and children's wellbeing. The satirical cartoons contrast sharply with the serious charitable mission, typical of Life's editorial approach mixing social commentary with moral purpose.
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CAN SUCH THINGS SE? “OH, DEAR, NO! THAT PORTRAIT WILL NEVER DO! YOU HAVEN'T PAINTED ME FAT ENOUGH” Regarding the Summer Shows ™ IF E isn't parochial with regard to the theatre. But it seems as though the intelligent playgoer who is neither squeamish nor prudish, who enjoys fun and sensations, who has an honest liking for the pleas- ure and art of the stage, ought to have a little cer- tainty when he goes into a first-class theatre that he won't be com pelled to encounter either physical or mental indecency. A Question of Publicity HEN Lire records the establish- ment of an added Fresh Air En- dowment it may not seem to be a mat- ter of vast public importance. It isn't —to-day—but it will be a vastly im- give publicity now to the generos that puts a Fresh Air Endowment existence. In the good it will do an achievement worthy of record We have rei ed from C. PL Ma Arthur, Esq., of Buffalo, two hundre: dollars in Liberty bonds and four « lars and twenty-six cents in past-dy coupons to establish PRESHE AIK ENDOWMENT NO. 4 In Memory of St. Jonx Maca n Ace, killed in action ast ninth, 1918 We have received in Liberty Ix two hundred dollars from Mr. an Mrs. J. D. Grant, Slidell, La., to ere PRES AIK ENDOWMENT NO. 44 In Memory of Mrs. M. E. Brows nt and Mrs, Mo BL Quartes To establish a Fresh Air Endowmen two hundred dollars in Victory notes Liberty Loan 4!j-per-cent. bonds shoul he sent by registered mail to Lirt Fresh Air Fund, Inc. 17 West Thirty first Street, New York City. The income from this amount provide that every summer, in perpetuity, a po: child will be sent from the slums of Nev York for a fortnight’s stay in the frest air of the country, This work has now been carried on for thirty-one years, in which time more than forty thou children have gained health and hap ness from it. A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any designation its donor chooses portant matter to some poor city child “THE BRIDEGROOM LOOKS NERVOUS.” in every hot summer during the years “HE'S AWFULLY OUT OF PRACTICE, HE HASN'T BEEN MARRIED FOR NEARLY to come. That is why Lire is glad to A YEAR. comicbooks.com