Life, 1926-07-08 · page 12 of 41
Life — July 8, 1926 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct items from *Life* magazine: **Top cartoon ("The Gay Nineties"):** A satirical illustration mocking 1890s urban life. The cartoon shows a person manipulating a large folding bed—a piece of furniture that collapses for storage. The caption humorously suggests that in the "Gay Nineties," city dwellers faced such cramped living conditions and dangerous folding furniture that death might come from the bed closing unexpectedly at night. The joke targets overcrowded, squalid city housing and the dark humor that accompanied poverty. **Bottom article ("The Children Flock Once More to Life's Camps"):** A sincere piece announcing summer camps for 350+ underprivileged children from cities, hosted at locations like Potterville, N.J., and Branchville, Connecticut. The text emphasizes providing nutrition, rest, and moral development to needy children during an 18-day stay, soliciting donations ($20 per child) for this charitable effort.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
IBLE WITH DEATH VIA THE FOLDING BED. D AS AN INNOCENT CUPBOARD OR PIER GLA IN WHICH CASE, ONLY THE CHANCE OF YoUR MUFF. AND EVEN THE ED CR NIGHT DID NOT BRING PEACE THIS TWO-FACE AND SECURITY, FOR ARTICLE OF FURNI- —HAD A TREACH- ESUME ITS MASQUERADE. $ BEING ITEARD BY A WAKEFUL NEIGHBOR STOOD BETWEEN YOU AND THE PEARLY GATES, The Children Flock Once More to Lire's Camps hundred and fifty city- undernourished, needy ittle children are now knee- deep in country life at Pottersville, N. J. (Lire’s Camp for Boys), and at Branehville, Conn. (Lire’s Camp for Girls). Three hundred and fifty! They have been your guests for the past week, the Camps having opened on the first of the month. We plan to keep them for eighteen days, In that time we must build up weak bodies with plenty of good food and rich and lots of rest. We must straighten out little twisted minds so that honor and hope and happi- ness may find a place to grow. All this in eighteen days! Then they must go back to the city so that the next three hundred and fifty from the same appealing little army may come to us. Thus it will go on all during the summer. These eighteen days cost, approx- imately, twenty dollars for one child. That amount—or anything more, or less—will be a glorious help in carrying on this wonderful work and will be received with deep gratitude, If you can’t send money, send toys, games, victrola records, (Continued on page 34) comicbooks.com