Life Magazine – June 14, 1900 (# 918)

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Cover : Which weighs more, a pound of brains or a pound of muscle?, “The spring examinations,” young woman in graduation gown gazing at a scholar and an athlete, art by Otho Cushing.

– Full page art or cartoon art by W. M. Goodes (Art on both sides of the magazine center, Monkeys picking on the Zebra who shows them what for), Henry Hutt (Like Grown-ups, Charming scene of mother watching her daughter scold her doll).
– Full page ad for Northern Steamship Company with neat art of ship breaking out of a globe.
– Cute half page photo of many kids (mostly girls) at Life’s Fresh Air Camp doing exercises outside in a meadow.
– Two page centerspread art by the famous Charles Dana Gibson, “Is this why the average husband and brother stay away?”, poor old gentleman surrounded by women.
– Some current events include : The Sultan of Turkey has not paid us what he owes yet, The Yale societies are still tangled, Turbulent doings in China, General Otis is now living in Rochester, Difficulties with the building trades in Chicago, Railway strike in St. Louis, Plague in San Francisco.
– “Our President, whose struggles to do right are too often coldly observed by unsympathetic critics, has made himself again a mark for censure by appointing Mr. John R. Hazel to be a Federal Justice for the District of Western New York.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1900 content – fun!