Life Magazine – April 17, 1890 (# 381) – Engaged!

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Cover : “In England : I hear that you’re engaged.  Really?  To whom?,” art by Stephen Van Schaick.

– Half page art or cartoon art by Stephen Van Schaick, Wife realizes she left the cat in the house alone and without food while they are gone for a week.  Husband says, “I remembered her.  I left a can of condensed milk on the kichen table with a sardine opener beside it.”
– Two page centerspread art by F. G. Attwood, “We shall meet on that beautiful shore,” Dickens, Scott, Johnson and Thackeray on the Elysium landing of the Styx River.
– Some current events include : Incendiary motion toward putting up a statue of Lafayette in Lafayette Park, Trying to oust editor Murat Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial, Crusade against the rottenness in New York’s police department.
– Neat half page Pears soap ad with art of two women outside their home with buckets and scrub brushes.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1890 content – fun!