Life Magazine – December 7, 1916 (# 1780) – Christmas Number

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Cover : Child saying prayer before eating, while puppy drinks from his soup bowl unseen, “For what we are about to receive,” signed, but I do not recognize the glyph.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (an extra FAT holiday issue).
– Full page color ads for : Fatima cigarettes, Victrola, Great Western Champagne, Great White Fleet (call of the Caribbean with Toucans), Gordon Dry Gin (with dainty service), Whitman’s chocolates (with gorgeous art of little girl doing Whitman’s sampler cross-stitch), Ramses cigarettes, Rigaud perfumes (Art, when the Queen of Sheba), Liquor cabinet with various liquors like Strathdon whisky, Durham Duplex Razors, Columbia Grafonola (ye olde minstrelle outdone), McCallum Silk Hosiery (art of doorman and delivery boy by M. C. Woodbury), Egyptian Deities cigarettes (Great art of Santa in snow storm, not signed), Cook’s Imperial wine (signed with D with an arrow through it), Simplex automobile company (impressive and unusual art by Louis Fancher), Gordon Scotch Whisky, Club Cocktails (nice art), Skookum Apples (art by Arthur P. Rule), Barton & Guestier wines, Pierce Arrow motor cars (Science, art by Vaderente), Kodak (with color photo, A happy Christmas thought).
– Some of the other full page ads : Exide Battery / Electric storage Battery  Company (a curious ad with art of a bunch of little guys in checkered pants, sure looks like the style of Maxfield Parrish, but isn’t.  Signature not quite legible.  First name Roy, last name ends in SON), White Rock mineral water, Krementz men’s jewelry, Johnny Walker whiskey (art by Leo Cheney), Onyx Silk hosiery (art by Malcolm Strauss, Emery-Beers company), Liberty Motor Car Company, Hamilton watch Company (with four trains and engineers Thomas Loftus, James Bailey, Lewis C. Henry, and William S. Hair), Costume jewelry by Ostby and Barton company, Old Hampshire Bond Stationery, Havone cigarette cases, Kerr buckles and belts, Sonora Phonograph, Republic Motor Truck company, Ohio Electric Car company,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (Hard Lines), Crawford Young (A Christmas celebration in 1975 : burning Santa in effigy), Charles Dana Gibson (Just a sketch about nothing in particular), Calvert (The return of the prodigal), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : Ye excuse Sir Galahad gave hys spouse for coming home late.), (In ye goode olde days : ye return from ye stagge affaire), (Ye quiet lyttel supper), (Ye trystynge place), F. T. Richards (November), Dan Smith (COLOR : Please, O Santa Claus, Don’t forget the roller skates, Amen), John Coleman Terry (COLOR, Aladdin and his wonderful lamp … probably right Terry), Rea Irvin (Two pages, The amateur theatricals), F. Foster Lincoln (landscape format, Three generations from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves), Herbert Johnson (Evolution),
– Eight photos with war orphans : Jeanne Devienne (#358), Jeanne and Simone Robert (# 289 and 290), Madeleine Gaucherin (#313), Juliette and Odette Sauton (# 344 and 345), Marie Maguer (# 374), Jeanne Renou (# 321), Sadia Jacob (# 316), Henri Bontet (# 342), often with some family members.
– Poem by Arthur Guiterman, Don’t Open Till Xmas.
– Schedule of a married man’s pre-Christmas activities, by K. L. Roberts.
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, Fallen Among Thieves, Santa has fallen from his sleigh in snowy woods and little kids are running off with all the toys.
– Some current events include : The Great War, World domination attempt by the Germans, US President has not yet committed to joining the war,
– And much more 1916   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!