Life Magazine – December 5, 1918 (# 1884) – Christmas

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (extra FAT, many color pages).
– Charming full page color Onyx hosiery ad with art of lady ice skaters by F. W. Read.
– Full page color ads for Victrola, Whitman’s chocolates (with military Santa), Omar Omar cigarettes (nice art), Columbia Grafonola, McCallum Silk Hosiery (M. C. Woodbury art of oriental ladies and silk moths), Rameses cigarettes), Egyptian Deities cigarettes with nice art, Milo Violets cigarettes (nice art of lady at her bath, not signed).
– Full page ad for Exide electric storage batteries, Waltham watches, Reed & Barton silver.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Angus MacDonall (Christmas Eve : the answered prayer), Power O’Malley (landscape format : And bring him back safely, Amen), Crawford Young (The Great Givers … Santa at house that has four sons in service), Charles Dana Gibson (He’s coming back), Pedro Llanuza (The Follies of 1861 – with a little excitement like this you can convince your wife of almost anything), F. T. Richards (November), Charles Forbell (probably)(The Simian society votes to reject the Darwinian theory), P. L. Crosby (snapshots from the front), Oliver Herford (two and a half pages : the thousand dollar butterfly), Charles Dana Gibson (The new trick), Walter De Maris (The Pied Piper), Donald McKee (All together now, boys), Harrison Cady (The night before Christmas in our village),
– Just plain SUPER full page artwork by Paul Stahr showing black American troops marching on board ship, “A Dark day for France when they embark for home.”
– Some current events include : Everybody got enough of the war, Merry Christmas to all mankind.
– Small photos of babies Roger Foulley 2929 and his sister, Helene Nolet 2025 and her brothers, Raymond Veuillequez 2044 and his mother and brother.
– And much more 1918   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!