Life Magazine – April 8, 1909 (# 1380) – Dealing in Love

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Cover : Young women dealing a run of hearts while gazing at YOU, art by John Cecil Clay.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Tires (Fisk Removable Rim … exceptionally cute art of a cheerful young fellow bounding along in his car with tacks under the balloon tires, art by W. D. (Do you know the artist? Tell me!), Pierce Arrow (nice art by Louis Fancher, a car for riding not racing).
– Full page black and white ads for Havoline Oil Company (with neat art of airplane, boat and cars), White Company (The White Steamer is the most desirable car … can be driven at any speed without the shifting of gears).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raymond Crosby (A study in furs, boy looking at two women all dressed in furs),
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “After,” exhausted hosts after big party claim that he won’t talk for a month and she can’t wait to get her slippers off.
– Some current events include : Discussion of the tariff bill; Columbus Day is a new holiday; Life wants a new holiday in August when it is too hot to work J.
– “Our great body corporate is black with leeches. The present effort at tariff revision is an attempt to pull a few of them off.”
– Another quote from the Editor’s column, long but excellent, “The Civil War was fought by the South in the interest of about ten thousand considerable slave owners and their families, and against the most vital interests of all the rest of the Southern white population. Today there are tens of thousands of Americans, no doubt, whom the Dingley tariff protects and enriches; but how many millions are there whom that tariff mulcts and burdens, and they, all the time, as oblivious to it, as the poor whites were of the cost to them of the slavery they were fighting to preserve? It is “a rich man’s war, and a Poor man’s fight” again, this fight for the tariff.”   Does this sound like the Tariff situation in 2019 – I think so.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1909 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!