Life Magazine – December 3, 1908 (# 1362) – Christmas – Coles Phillips

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Cover : Three men trailing behind a lovely lady, “The three wise men,” art by C. Coles Phillips.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (Much fatter issue than other 1908 issues).

– Full page color ad for Eastman Kodak (with man sitting in front of fire and admiring his vacation photo album).

– Full page black and white ads for Packard “eighteen” 1909 Town Car (Limousine version shown), Prudential Life Insurance, Rambler cars (Nice art, Model Forty-Four, 34 H.P. $2250, with offset crank shaft), Welch’s Grape Juice (with art by CH or GH), Baldwin Pianos, Chickering Pianos, American Vacuum Clean Company (with art), Northern Pacific railroad (Yellowstone Park Line with photos, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), Gibson’s Rye Whiskey (with art by RFA), Gillette Safety Razor.

– Full page art or cartoon art by J. R. Shaver (Little girl confronting Santa Claus, “No, I don’t believe in you any more, but you may leave the things”), Arthur T. Merrick (Castles in the air), C. J. Taylor (non-standard shape, If he had married her : the revery of a bachelor over his old love letters … he is happy to be a bachelor!), unsigned (Famous art that might have been different if painted today, such as the Mona Lisa in an advertisement),

– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker (His Christmas Dream, a bride).

– Some current events include : William Taft, Expectation of prosperity, Merry Christmas to all!

– Funny three-panel artwork by Ted of a painted sliding door where the ad changes as the door is opened, the Reverend is now offering beer on ice by the case.

– “It is easy to rise, but hard to come down, in the scale of living. If we are now comfortably nourished on three daily meals and afternoon tea, let’s not blunder immediately into the mistake of requiring five. If we find ourselves doing well with somewhat less rum, and older raiment than we used to need, let us value and preserve those modifications of our necessities.”

– And much more 1908   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool! … this is a fat issue.