Life, 1924-07-31 · page 10 of 36
Life — July 31, 1924 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts a cook whispering to a thin, poorly-dressed child with the caption "I GUESS THAT'LL HOLD 'IM!" The image satirizes poverty and inadequate nutrition for children during what appears to be the early 20th century. The accompanying article, "Commendable Imitation," discusses LIFE magazine's Fresh Air Fund—a charitable initiative providing rural vacations for underprivileged city children. The piece acknowledges expanding operations to a second farm in New Jersey to accommodate more child guests. The cartoon's dark humor contrasts the meager meal being served against the charitable efforts described in the text, likely critiquing the gap between poor urban children's actual living conditions and the limited relief efforts available to them.
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Cook (whispering) : 1 GUESS THAT'LL HOLD ‘Im! Commendable Imitation a rule Lire prefers originality to imitation. Praise, however, must go to those who, following Lire’s lead, have imitated its long-established work of supplying fresh air vacations for poor city children during the heated term. In the New York City field, where Lire was originally almost alone in providing this blessed relief for the suffering little ones, there are now more than one hundred organizations engaged wholly or partly in fresh air work. Lire’s readers have been wonderfully gencrous in supplying the means to maintain the farm at Branchville, Con- necticut, which has hitherto been the scene of our fresh air operations. En- couraged by this unfailing source of help, we have dared to double our re- sponsibilities and double the capacity for good by taking on another Fresh Air Farm in the hills of New Jersey, where there is now a child population equal to that at Branchville, The total number of child guests at both places is now almost four hundred. Our hos- pitality has to be of the short duration of a fortnight for each small visitor, so as to do some good to the greatest possible number. Lire’s readers are intelligent as well as generous. They will observe that we are not begging, but they will also ob- serve that when we are doubling the benefits conferred we are also doubling the expenditure. We feel a certain confidence that the combined generosit and perceptiveness of Lire’s readers will make receipts and expenditures on fresh air account ba’ the end of the season of hot nights in the tene- ments. As a minor suggestion, it may inter- est some reader to know that if he or she has a phonograph or radio set not in use there are a lot of children at both farms who would enjoy listening in Lire’s Fresh Air Fund gratefully ac- knowledges the following contributions Previously acknowledged... Richard = M. Robinson, meadow, Mass. eteceee 5.01 E. E, Swift, Easton, F seeee 10.00 New York. - 2.0.2.5 30.00 New York... 15.0 Los Angeles. . 3.00 Yor, «sss $0.00 Mrs. 5 I River. 50.0 Mrs. a Rome, N + B. nection, $9,313.64 Long Bickiord, “Osceola AL Atwater Kent, Ardmore, rison, Los Angeles. 11.00 hton, Chestnut Hill, H. Funk, Philadelphia... 10.00 F., Brookline, M ee 11.06 Theodore F. Tracy, San Francisco 11.00 Arthur N. Cowperthwait, Tucson, Ariz. sei veceet is $0.00 Clare M. Cook, San Francisco... 2.50 Mr. and Mrs.’ Charles C. Tyler, Bridgeport, Conn... peal Mrs. John Penniman, Kal 4 Mich : Sass s.00 In memory < 3 ampton, Mass. Mrs. Edward Calif Dorothea Mrs. Eugenia Bedford, Mass E. B. 100.00, 20.00 11.00 10.00 Grants Pass, 9:00 Wellington Morse, Pa If. isccesen ses 10.00 L. “MeManus, Fe see a 5.00 Nicholson, New Bed: Mass “ 33.00 Stamford 10.00 ding. seat thane 10.00 Porter, Jr., Montclair. 10.00 Comstock,” Ivoryton, Beil, Los “Angeles... 2.2 20.00 + Cease, Dunkirk, NOY 21: 5.00 (Continued on page 31) HAPPY HOURS AT ONE OF OUR FRESH AIR FARMS comicbooks.com