Life Magazine – December 3, 1925 (# 2248) – Christmas Number

Description

Cover : Really cute art of historic group of men waiting and “not” watching as a lady removes a stocking to add to the collection hanging from the mantle, “My Lady’s Stocking,” art by Ralph Barton.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (an extra FAT issue with 76 pages and more color).
– Full page color White Rock water ad with Santa taking a break, not signed.
– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens, Pepperell sheets (with lady in 1845 outfit), Godrich Silvertown Balloon tires (man carrying a Christmas tree, art by Karl Godwin), Ipswich Hosiery (art by Charles Dana Gibson), Roger & Gallet perfumes, Coty perfumes, Seald Sweet Florida tangerines, Gillette razors, Atwater Kent radios (art by CK).
– Full page ads for Chrysler, Weyerhaeuser, Ben Wade pipes, Clicquot Club ginger ale, Black Starr & Frost jewelers, Freed-Eisemann radios (with red), Brooks Brothers clothing, Grebe Synchrophase radio (art by Raymond Thayer), Fisher bodies (art by George Harper), Gorham silversmiths with William Munn Smith, Indrio Florida.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Fred G. Cooper (Reindeer laughing at Santa who is having trouble with a car), H. T. Webster (Go uptown and interview some of the poor devils …), Strothmann (Christmas in Tudor England : Sir Walter Raleigh introduces the Christmas cigar to her Majesty), Strothmann (Christmas in Tudor England : Henry the Eighth adjusts the mistletoe), Rube Lucius Goldberg (two pages : the unbreakable doll – a Christmas Calamity), Gluyas Williams (The Christmas Card counter), Rea Irvin (all in the eye), P. L. Crosby (two pages of Skippy), Ellison Hoover (two pages : An impression of Utopia by one who has never been there), C. H. Sykes (As amended … Peace on earth), Alfred Frueh (two pages : when the last Christmas tree has been cut down), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde dayes : Ye righte spirit), Rodney Thomson (with poem “The Dragon’s Christmas” by Arthur Guiterman), John Held Jr. (My parents still believe in you), Don Herold (two pages : A psychological Christmas).
– Full page COLOR art by P. L. Crosby (Ah, don’t cry, ma, ya singin’ swell), Victor C. Anderson (The road to yesterday … people in a horse-drawn sleigh),
– The Three Little Ants, poem, “Oh, you’re not so smart, Mr. A. A. Milne!), by Baron Ireland.
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, The head of the house is home for the holidays … a young man.
– Some current events include : Peace and good will do not yet absolutely prevail in this world, Locarno, Europe is not cured yet but at least it is convalescing.
– And much more 1925   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!