Life, 1925-06-25 · page 15 of 37
Life — June 25, 1925 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two cartoons and short stories satirizing early 20th-century American social issues. The top cartoon depicts wealthy urbanites asking poor children from the city slums, "How far do you live from town?" and "Seven comic strips and one editorial." It mocks how comic strips and newspapers had become the primary entertainment and education for impoverished urban children—suggesting this constituted their entire world. The lower cartoon shows "Listen Inn," a summer camp facility, captioned "Yep, that's the new summer camp for telephone operators." This satirizes the growing professionalization of women's labor and the expansion of corporate summer camps, poking fun at how even leisure time was becoming commercialized and job-focused. Both cartoons critique consumerism and industrialization's impact on working and poor Americans.
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Help Heaven a Bit HAs last terrifying hot spell! Even we in our comfort panted and baked and were ill. And we all said in our hearts: “Heaven help the little children of the slums such weather as this!” Heaven probably did and will con tinue to help them, but it's up to us to help heaven a bit. Lire’s two splendid Fresh Air Farms, at Pottersville, New Jersey, and at Branchville, Connecticut, are in apple- pie order, awaiting our guests, In a few days the first four hundred will arrive, Counsellors are on hand to direct the camp activities so that even the play of these poor youngsters may yicld the maximum benefit. Nurses, matrons, caretakers and cooks are forgathered. Exhausted and undernourished, the children of the teeming tenements of Greater New York hold out their hands to you: “Send us to the green fields, under cool skies, in the quict and peace of the country—for God's sake!” $15 pays, approximately, for a holi- day of two weeks for one child at either of Lire’s Fresh Air Farms. Less, goes a long way. More, goes farther. Lire's Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged $2,053.17 Dorothy P. Brooks, Mass. te W. ULM.) Philadelphia? B.. L.B., "Philadelphia... > i New York Iphi F. S., Philadelphia. B. G! Clark, New York: (Continued on = “HOW FAR DO YOU LIVE FROM TOWN?” “SEVEN COMIC STRIPS AND ONE EDITORIAL.” Supplementing Science "THEY were listening to a Philhar- monic concert over the radio when the host passed abruptly in front of his guest. Stepping on one of his feet, he offered grudging and perfunctory apolo- gies, Then he returned as he had come, and offered no apologies at all. He had a fuzzy couch cover on his arm which brushed the guest's face unpleasantly, Nor were these the only incredible things that happened. The host's wife began to talk loudly in the most delicate pianissimo pass- ages. And the host's little boy, aged eight, at intervals dropped chairs upon “YEP, THAT’S THE NEW SUMMER CAMP FOR TELEPHONE OPERATORS.” the parquet floor, Seemingly with the consent of his parents, for they neither stopped nor reproved him. “Marvelous how they broadcast these concerts,” commented the host when the program was over. “There is but one defect, and that we have sought to rem- edy. Not without success, as I think you'll agree.” “You refer to——" “To my passing in front of you and stepping on you. Also, to the bright and animated talk while the concert was going on. Likewise, to the clatter of seats as the latecomers arrive. No mu- sical evening is complete without these, you know.” “But why did you step on me twice?” “Ah, that,” said the host, smiling, “that may have been carrying realistic reproduction a trifle too far. It was to convey the idea that, after climbing over you, and swishing you with my coat— in other words, with this couch cover— T had discovered I was in the wrong row and had to pass out‘again. Drop around Monday evening. There is a grand opera on and I'll have our ice- man in to stamp and shout ‘bravissimo’ in the original Italian.” A. H. F, Ruinous RS. CRAWFORD: Is ‘that all you have left of the beautiful dinner set you got as a wedding pres- ent? . Mrs. CrassHaw: Yes; the breaks were against me. comicbooks.com