Life, 1919-09-18 · page 8 of 48
Life — September 18, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **two main elements**: a brief essay titled "More Perpetuity" on the left, and an illustration on the right. The **illustration** depicts an older gentleman (appearing to be a wealthy benefactor) speaking with two children outdoors. The caption reads: "I hope you are good children's and always obey your father and mother" / "We always oby mamma, so does papa." The joke appears to be gentle irony about children's obedience—they claim to obey "mamma," implying Papa may be less strictly obeyed, or perhaps suggesting children's selective compliance with parental authority. Below is **Life's Fresh Air Fund** section, listing donors and amounts for a charitable program sending poor children to the countryside for summer stays. This was a genuine Progressive-era initiative providing urban poor children respite in fresh air—a major public health concern of that period.
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486 More Perpetuity T'S curious that a man should con- cern himself with what's going to happen after he’s dead, but it’s rather creditable to humanity that most of us like to feel that after we have fin- ished with our worldly possessions they are going to do good, instead of being wasted. To make that good perpetual and a lasting monument is also praiseworthy. This perpetuity in well-doing is just what the Fresh Air Endowments achieve. They not only help little poor children while the donors live, but for all time after the donors have departed. These additional endowments have been established: By Mr. and Mrs, Edward S. Bowen of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, FRESH, AIR ENDOWMENT NO. 127 In Memory of Joserit Brows Bowen Royal Air Force, who was killed in ac tion in France, September 7, 1918 By A McNeal, Esq., of Birming- ham, Alabama, FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NO. 1 In Memory of Jon F. McNeat. a Annie F. McNeat, my parents. To establish a Fresh Air Endowment two hundred dollars in Victory notes or Liberty Loan 4!4-per-cent. bonds should be sent by registered mail to Lire's Fresh Air Fund, Inc, 17 West Thirty- first Street, New York City The income from this amount provides that every summer, in perpetuity, a poor ; “HOPE YOU AKE GOOD CHILDREN AND ALWAYS ONLY YOUR FATHER AND child will be sent from the slums of New ‘ rn 2 MOTHER. York for a fortnight’s stay in the fresh “WE ALWAYS OREY MAMMA, SO DOES PAPA. air of the country. This work has now been carried on for thirty-two years. in stacy Miter Wheat : Roouy which time more than forty thousand Mrs) James Grist Staton rom’ the are ne sith ;. Proceeds of a fair given by seven Wyanoke children have gained health and happi little children from Colonial Inn, Stephen Chase ness from it Ogunquit, Maine... 2 B. Tepper A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any McConnell Sherman: S designation its donor chooses. c n concert grab- William Ellery by two. small girls Winifred. Go Webi ncy Rogers and Eleanor Dege MAG , ; % ner. aesieaee Mary M. Ture LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund °C 6. z : § Minnie Rayburn ee 2 Mrs. “Charles” : Mrs. R. T. Shelde e of 1918, Line's Fersu Ate Fuxo Mrs. Lloyd E. Me . Isabelle La Roche has been in operation thi sears. In Dorothy ‘Allee . o Robert H. Byles that time it has expended $174,433.17 and rs. lorley..... CE McLellan hai Gleca'a' fortilohl tn Yhe Couche ae gates. Mie, Ec He: Ludiord Sees ©. Cl Buel ot . eh 7 Charles D. Brunner .. s Mrs. J. L. Wyckoff . it Frederick R. Roberts... Waly Co Hodges 221. Fund is supported entir b» wests Mrs. M. K. Bissell... . Miss G. B. Whittemore oluntary contributions, which are ace Mrs. C, RLM. ....ss. s Mrs. Frances M. Stevens wledged' tw this’ colua A. D. Woodward sac oe A, GH. . : FloMeL. Barger... s Wm. R.Graupner Previously acknowledged $2,720.08 Mrs. Martin Sheeler Watts. . Mrs. Flore: Wiley q Reid Foster 10.00 Mrs. Edw, Mallinckrodt, Jr... h, “In memoriam R. V. Alfred Hennen Morris... 10.09 Wells F. Ostrander, on his Frederick Warren HW. ¢ birthday A C Jane C. Young Mrs. Josephine AL Maher... 0... . 1D. Stryker ‘ Dale D. Butler A. Lo Rinard v2... 2... 2 “ of the Number H. L. Wood. : Jane M. Harney : Tournament, 1919 In tribute to F. J. Woand M. PW in loving memory of 5.04 “ 'y Beez Joseph A. Galahad........ ‘ R. B. MacCleary. oy Aloha Hive, South Fairiee, G. C. Gates... . . Vermont .. comicbooks.cona