Life — July 10, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life's Fresh Air Fund - Charity Page This page describes Life magazine's Fresh Air Fund, a charitable program sending poor urban children to a farm in Branchville, Connecticut for summer vacations. The cartoon captioned "His Dog: I Wonder Why He Wants to Stop Here" depicts a blind beggar with a dog encountering two children at what appears to be the farm. The joke seems to contrast the beggar's circumstances with the rural setting—the dog's confusion about why someone would stop at a peaceful farm location suggests the contrast between city poverty and countryside refuge. The page documents donations totaling $2,228.01 and explains how the fund provides vacations for approximately 40,000 children annually from poor New York City neighborhoods, addressing early 20th-century urban poverty and child welfare concerns.