Life, 1920-03-25 · page 24 of 40
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This page combines two distinct elements: political caricature and charitable advocacy. **Political Cartoon (Top):** The two illustrated figures labeled "For President, GEN. LEONARD BRYAN" and "For Vice-President, WM. JENNINGS WOOD" appear to be satirical caricatures of political candidates. The exaggerated, unflattering depictions—particularly the prominent features and crude styling—suggest mockery of these figures, likely from an early 20th-century election. **Lower Cartoon:** "The Parvenus Have One of Their Ante-Opulent Domestic Arguments" satirizes nouveau-riche behavior, showing quarreling figures amid domestic chaos. "Parvenus" (newly wealthy people) were frequent targets of Life's satire for their ostentatious vulgarity. **Editorial Content:** The essay "The Endowments" promotes the Fresh Air Fund, a genuine charity sending poor urban children to the countryside. It contrasts genuine charitable concern with self-serving love, critiquing hypocrisy—a typical Life editorial stance. The page reflects Life's dual mission: political satire and progressive social advocacy.
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560 Question HAT kind of a lover are you? Tell me what you love, and I will tell you what you are. Do you love yourself better than anything else in the world? Do you love yourself so well that you try to conceal it by the appearance of loving something else more? How much do you love money? Dogs? Children? Your neighbor? Your best girl? Do you love all these for the sake of getting others to love you more, or because by loving them you are for- getting yourself? The Endowments IFE’S readers have a way of think- ing for themselves, especially where the matter concerned is one of well-doing for others, For instance, { | there are the Fresh Air Endowments. s The ordinary person cannot picture, = while there is still snow upon the 3 ground and cold in the air, that there F are such things as the tortures of tor- 2 rid summer nights for the little chil- § dren of the poor in the crowded tene- F ments of the city. Lire’s readers even S now are thinking of that suffering and F what a two weeks’ stay in the country means to the city child. They also ap- For President, For Vice-President, preciate that the Fresh Air Endow- GEN. LEONARD BRYAN WM. JENNINGS WOOD ments work winter and summer to provide the means for such outings. As an example of this foresightedness, we have received from Mrs. Constance A. Willmarth, of Chicago, Illinois, the SI funds to establish . FRESH AIK ENDOWMENT NO 161 N In Loving Memory of Maud’s little . Constance. Bi To establish a Fresh Air Endowment W two hundred dollars in Victory notes or G Liberty Loan bonds, or their equivalent, T should be sent by registered mail to T Live's Fresh Air Fund, Inc, 17 West It Thirty-first Street, New York Ci T 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. This work has now . been carried on for thirty-two years, in which time more than forty thousand ne children have gained health and happi- AEB wae ness from it. wi A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any x THE PARVENUS HAVE ONE OF THEIR ANTE-OPULENT DOMESTIC ARGUMENTS designation its donor chooses. comicbooks.com