Life, 1919-10-16 · page 8 of 36
Life — October 16, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page documents **Life's Fresh Air Fund**, a charitable endowment providing summer outings for poor urban children. The left column lists donors and contributions (totaling $13,197.28). The illustration captioned "THE BACHELOR'S IDEA OF IT" shows a man juggling a child, satirizing wealthy bachelors' impractical notions of childcare—suggesting they have no genuine understanding of children's needs. The main illustration depicts an elegantly-dressed couple receiving a poor child visitor, with the caption "SHE: WELL, HOW DO YOU LIKE ME TO-NIGHT? / HE: THERE'S NO USE TALKING, CLOTHES DO HELP." This mocks shallow materialism: the wealthy care only about appearances while claiming charitable impulses. The satire critiques how wealthy donors congratulate themselves for charity while remaining disconnected from actual poverty and children's welfare.
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LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 191 Previously acknowledged $15,097.38 Alex. E. O, Munsell juaad 100.00 Mrs. William R. King Saesiese 8.00 K. Morris . oe 16,00 Proceeds of a fair conducted by Mary Ayres, Imogene Stceves and Harrison Steeves at West port, Conn. 2 a H. V.’ Patten... Pollman Jack Dixon p- Park, laines North Hero, Ve memory of II.” For All Time 'O talk of summer outings for poor children at this time of year seems something of an anachronism, but Lire’s generous readers simply won't stop sending in the securities to estab- lish Fresh Air have to be acknowledged. Endowments, which They seem does, that it doesn’t make any difference when the endowments are created —that from the moment the donation is made the money begins to work for the good which is to be perpetual. In acknowledging Endowment No. 132 a typographical error made it in memory of Thomas Keagher instead of “In Memory of Tomas Meacuer,” as it should have been. Lire has received from Mrs. Alverda Keyser Smale of Los Angeles, Cali- to appreciate, as Lire BACHELOR'S IDEA OF IT WELL, HOW DO YOU LIKE ME TO-XIGHT? THERE'S NO USE TALKING, CLOTHES DO HELP. fornia, the bonds and funds to estab- lish FRESE AIR ENDOWMENT No. 138 In Memory of Ciartes A. Keyser 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 Live'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 child will be sent from the slums of New York for a fortnight’s stay in the fresh air of the country. A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any designation chosen O profiteer is without honor, ex- cept among those who have found him out All in a Day's Strike Gompers Calls Off Steel Strike. Gompers Tells Boston Cops to Go Back. Gompers Hurry Up. Gompers Warns Congress to Go Headlines. Advises President to Slow. Gompers says, “ Thumbs up." Gompers says, “ Thumbs down.” Gompers says, “ Thumbs wiggle waggle.” JAN? if you are very good, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Gompers may let you all jump through a hoop. VERY man has three enemies: the woman le loves, the woman wh loves him, and himself comicbooks.canaym