Life, 1925-10-08 · page 41 of 46
Life — October 8, 1925 — page 41: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **Life's Fresh Air Fund** charity appeal (left) and advertisements (right), with minimal satirical content. ## Main Content: The **large silhouette illustration** shows a rotund man standing on tiny airplanes, with the caption "what a whale of a difference just a few cents make." This advertises Life's Fresh Air Fund, which had operated for 38 years sending urban children to camps. The "whale of a difference" suggests that small donations ($30,828.43 total acknowledged here) meaningfully improve poor children's lives. Below are **donor acknowledgments**—a list of individuals and companies who contributed shoes, clothing, books, and food. The page includes separate joke items: - "High Lights in John Pedestrian's Day" lists mundane urban accidents (car fires, collisions, garage fires) culminating in a headline about gasoline prices rising 4 cents—satirizing Americans' obsession with gas costs. - A Bible joke about King Darius and lions. ## Advertisements: Military binoculars (mail order, 10-day free trial) and Washington Importers branding dominate the right side—typical 1920s magazine advertising.
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