Life Magazine – October 10, 1889 (# 354) – The Proposal

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Cover : “Will you share my lot, Penelope?”  “Yes, if there is a brown stone front on it,” art by Charles Dana Gibson.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Stephen Van Schaick (nearly full page, fox hunt in fog, “In the meantime the fox has gone home to lunch)
– Two page centerspread art by C. Grey-Parker, That Coaching Trip IV, trials of a coaching trip in the countryside.
– Rather cute poem by E. T. Corbett, “The ballad of the germs,” which takes on extra meaning in our current time of COVID-19.
– Some current events include : “You can’t get anything that is worth having without giving up something else,” Novelist Wilkie Collins, Recent proposals for public school classes, Fashionable Society is frivolous, World’s Fair.
– And more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!