Life, 1919-07-17 · page 10 of 40
Life — July 17, 1919 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page combines charitable fundraising with satirical illustration. The main cartoon at bottom left depicts an impoverished figure asking "PLEASE, MUM, COULD YE GIVE A EXARTENDER A SQUARE MEAL?" — a period representation of urban poverty and begging, using exaggerated dialect to characterize the beggar. The bulk of the page documents "LIFE'S Fresh Air Fund," listing donors who contributed to send poor children from New York tenements to countryside farms for summer relief. The accompanying photograph labeled "CAVALRY DRILL" shows children in rural settings. The satire is implicit: the contrast between the desperate beggar and the charitable fund suggests both the extent of urban poverty and middle-class efforts (however limited) to address it. The cartoon's sympathetic framing critiques social inequality rather than the poor themselves.
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106 LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund tds. Jr, Edna Hiller Forty { District Claims t Board Adar I Wolke AWS WoR Major E Mr. W Mr. F ¥ Major J. M Mr. Earl F Mr. Albert” Aber J.C. Hazle W. Robinson 1r.°S V. Hoffman, J it acobtrs Sots He We letter x. George C. Ruby Mr. Louis Hirshler Mr. J.-D. Evans Mr. W. B. Hyde Mr. and Mrs. W Mr. S. Bogart Anonyin Mr. Capris Capt” WoC. Kr: Mr. ‘Chas, Horowitz Capt. HT. Cumm Mr. T. C. Gi A. Nelson “ PLEASE, MUM, COULD YE GIVE AN BARTENDER A SQUARE MEAL?” CAVALRY DRILL Mr A Miss LC. Norton Capt. HV. Conrad Capt J. HL Butler Mr. W. J.” Norton Wo McLaughlin Capt. FC. Bull Mr. B.'R. Cook Miss BL Cha Mr. H. 1 Dunphy Major J. S. String Mrs. fi. Cordnan Mr. CP. Guthafer Frederick MacLaren Mrs, Westhr in loving y of Anne odlett end of the kiddies PL Clyde dy of a Boy $3,230.78 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Boys’ stockings, blouses, shirts, ete. from Mrs. R. H. Beattie, Tiverton, Ro T Package of picture Christm: cards from y S. Gould, Auburn, N.Y. Box of toys, shoes and children’s clothing from Mrs, J. H. Plumb, Ardmore, Pa Pair of shoes from’ Mrs. C.. P. Merion. Pa. Happiness in Full Swing WO hundred of them are, at pres- ent writing, getting their lungs full of fresh air and their little tum- tums full of bread and milk and other wholesome sustenance. And every evening when they go to bed no on has to rock them to sleep. They have played hard enough all day to need no soporific. If you have any doubt about these facts or who “the just go up to Lire’s Fresh Air Farm and call on one of our fortnight parties from the city’s tenement dis- tricts. Below you will find an interesting suggestion with regard to perpetuating this distribution of summer happiness We have received from E. S. Little, Ksq.. of Garden City, Long Ist hundred Victory establish dollars in notes to FRESH ALK ENDOWMENT NO. 64 Memory of Littian Wacker Lottie. Niel Gray, Jr, of Os: York, we rom Mr. New two hundred dollars in Victory notes to establish wego, have received PRESHL AIK ENDOWMENT NO, 65 In the name of Gray JeNnsvoun. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. of Salt Lake City, Utah, send us two hundred dol- lars in Victory notes to establish PRESH AIK ENDOWMENT NO. 66 In Loving Memory of R. E. B From Major F. A Kalamazoo, Gardener of have re- ceived two hundred dollars in bonds and $8.48 in past-due coupons to estab- lish Michigan, we PRESH ALK ENDOWMENT, NO. In the name of Major F. A United States Marine Corps. Gaxvener, To establish a Fresh Air Endowment two hundred dollars in Victory notes or Liberty Loan 4!4-per-cent. bonds should be sent by ri mail to Ltre’s Fresh Air Fund, Inc. 17 West Thirty- first Street, New York City. The income from this amount pro. vides that every summer, in perpetuit} a poor child will be sent from the slums of New York for a fortnight’s stay in the fresh air of the country. This work has now been carried on for thirty-two years, in which time more than forty thousand children have gained health and happi- ness from it A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any designation its donor chooses. zistered comicbooks.coml