Life Magazine – August 27, 1914 (# 1661)

– Full page color Columbia graphophone company ad.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Hints to humorists : be helpful.  Lovers who have just quarreled need to be cheered up), Charles Broughton (landscape format : Pandora … box is named WAR), Charles Broughton (A midsummer night’s dream … Uncle Sam dreaming), Rea Irvin (A compendium of useful information : how to use a walking stick in self defence), W. O. Wilson (Burglar : Hello!  Yes, this is the receiving teller.), Rudolph Frederick Schabelitz (The end of the season and the end of the story), Alexander Popini (Lozier car ad),
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “The sea is so full of a number of things,” very crowded beach scene.
– Some current events include : War clouds, Belgians have checked the German advance through their borders, Europe is in a state conflagration, Germany and Austria are seeking to impose on the world a despotic authority, A great war is a great pacificator of squabbles.
– Much more.