Life, 1928-10-19 · page 35 of 40
Life — October 19, 1928 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes charitable appeals, humorous anecdotes, and advertisements typical of 1920s Life magazine. **Main Content:** - **Life's Fresh Air Fund**: A charity campaign asking readers to donate $20 to send poor city children on country holidays. This reflects Progressive Era concerns about urban poverty and child welfare. - **Three brief humorous anecdotes** satirizing American social pretension and tourism: 1. A college president's daughter offers a bathroom to a guest with affected politeness 2. American tourists claiming to experience "real" local life while only staying Friday-to-Monday 3. A reference to election-season political rhetoric **Advertising:** The right side features a large chrysanthemum advertisement ("Favored by Youth") and cruise line advertisements for the Holland-America Line, typical luxury travel marketing of the era. The page reflects 1920s middle-class anxieties about propriety, authenticity, and consumption, while promoting charitable giving and leisure travel.
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Lire’s Fresh Air Fund Lurt’s Faestt Ain Fuxn Aas been in operation ze years. In that time it has expende oo ‘and has given a hap holiday in the country to 51,000 poor city chil- dren. Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for such @ holiday for some poor child from the crowded city streets. Won't you help? Contributions (which are acknowledged in Live about four weeks after their receipt) should payable to Live's Fees Ain Fuxp, and Madison Avenue, New York. acknowledged... « $39,399.26 Woods C o $39,438.76 ALL AT HIS SERVICE A rorare college president was invited to lunch i of one of his alumnx. The five- y ughter of the house was delegated to show the distinguished guest up to wash his hands. Opening the door of the bathroom, which was duly fitted out with the best embroidered linens in honor of the occasion, Sally said: ‘Just at home, and"’—with a royal ges- ture—""you may use any of the towels." —Indianapolis News. EXHAUSTING A LARGE SUBJECT From a letter by an American residing in Paris: “1 met a party of American visitors here who told me they were not regular tourists, but had come to “get in touch with the life of the peepul.” I discovered that they had arrived late Friday evening and were leaving Monday morning!"* —Chicago Daily News. r1x clection the parodies probably will he tumult and the whispering dics.”* New York World. yxuNd CRUISES To 7), - Four Glorious Winter Vaca- tion Cruises of Recreation and Romance by the luxurious oil berning turbine sisterships — VOLENDAM or VEENDAM 16 Day Cruises by 8. 8. Volendam , FeomN. ¥. Jan. 26 & Feb. 16, 1929 Visiting Kingston, Port-au-Prince (Haiti) Havana sod Nassau —$230. up. Vinsin y fom New York March 9, 1929 ating Ki Martone Kingston (Jamaica), ‘Colon (Panaza ), Havana 29 Day Cruise by 8. S. Veendam ,. From N. ¥. Fe! 12, 1929 Visiting Nassau, Havana, Santiago, Kingston amaica) Colon (Panama), Curacao, La Guayra, Caracas, Trinidad, Busba.Jos, Martinique, St. Thomas, $an Juan and Bermuda— 5. up. Cruise rates include ae ive shore excur- tons, carefully arranged and carried out by Prank Tourist Tlustrated Booklet 14 sent on request. HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE p. 22-24 State Street, New York enc principe! Cote, ond FRAN FOURIS 501 PRN Ave. New York Look for this emblem... It is the mark of a good flor- ist, whose busi- ness integrity is unquestioned. Essence of Autumn sunshine; sparkling with the tang of Indian Summer. ... No wonder the Chrys- anthemum is favored by Youth—and by those never-grow-olds who have conquered the calendar. comicbooks.com