Life Magazine – November 27, 1890 (# 413) – Plenty of short engagements

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Cover : The More the Merrier, He – do you believe in long engagements? The widow – No, I prefer shorts ones, and plenty of them, art by Stephen W. Van Schaick.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Chip (artwork on both sides of central crease, A milk punch, cute comic strip about cow drinking wine and producing alcoholic milk).
– Half page artwork by Eustace Lee Florance, An exaggerated case of Hyperbole, You will look more like her than she does.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Social nuisances : those who make a point of being late.
– Some current events include : The contest between the woman who works for her living and the woman who doesn’t, The rule of the English butterfly (fancy rich folk) seems to be coming to an end, Industrialism is beginning to gain the upper hand.
– “Owing to an error in binding the Thanksgiving number of LIFE, a small part of the edition was sent out with several pages displaced.  The error was not discovered until about five thousand copies had been distributed beyond recall.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1890   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!