Life, 1920-12-02 · page 26 of 97
Life — December 2, 1920 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top illustration shows a large toy wagon or cart surrounded by children in a snowy landscape, labeled "TOYS." This depicts charitable toy distribution—likely a Christmas charity drive or welfare initiative. The caption "Working for the Cause" suggests this represents charitable work supporting underprivileged children during the holiday season. "A Christmas Song" by Clinton Scollard is a sentimental romantic poem about a man finding mistletoe while walking through winter woods and using it as a pretext to kiss a woman named Clarinda he encounters. "A Saintly Trick" (four sequential panels below) appears to be a comic story featuring Santa Claus in various scenes, though specific details are unclear from the image quality. The page combines sentimental holiday poetry and charitable imagery with humorous comics—typical Life magazine content mixing sentiment with gentle satire.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Christmas Lite Working for the Cause =A Christmas Song; 8 I went dofun byBramble- Side The wintry forays were fohite and foide, And red fwere hip and haw, And starling unto starling cried Gu shies that had no flaw. Shimmered the birch tree like a ray @f light, fohere under foot there lay The nefoly crusted snofy; And J cast eyes to find a spray Of berried mistletoe. F spied one in an oaken prong, And then Clarinda came along (Could there be sfeeter name?), Blpon her lips x Yuletide song, Ger cheeks like holly flame. So, With the mistletoe aboGe, And all the glinting green thereof So tempting and so fair, ' Dhat could J do, fuho lose my lose, But kiss Clarinda there ! Clinton Scollard. A SAINTLY TRICK