Life Magazine – September 1, 1892 (# 505) – Love vs. Proposal acceptance

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Cover : Two young ladies discussing a man, apparently he thinks the one is in love with him because she is going to marry him, Absurd!, art by Stephen W. Van Schaick.

– Full page art or cartoon art by F. G. Attwood (August), Albert Beck Wenzell (Shocking.  In my opinion no one can be good-looking unless well dressed.  And yet Venus was a success),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, Let the men who are uninteresting be kept in the background.
– Poem “On a Boston Maid,” by Gertrude Evans King.
– Some current events include : Goings on at the Buffalo illustrated, New York law that allows the Sheriff to call out the local militia, Union men in a dance between capitalists and labor bosses, Railroad strike, Labor Unions, Popular impression that the grip is always followed by cholera.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1892   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!