Life Magazine – July 22, 1909 (# 1395) – Bathing Beauty

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Cover : “The Sand Witch,”  A beach scene with a lovely young lady bewitching and sandwiched between two stalwart young men.  The lady is gazing dreamingly out to sea while the two men are assessing each other as rivals.  This is another nice example of the fadeout = fade away art style of the famous C. Coles Phllips.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Removable Rim (with the Fisk bolted-on tire, includes reproductions of three color posters available to the public), Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes (What’s that I hear?, with toddler holding ears).
– Full page black and white ads for Haynes Automobile Company ($1,000 less – Or $500 more), Prudential insurance, Hudson Motor Car Company (Hudson Twenty $900, Strong – Speedy – Roomy – Stylish).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (Assuring : rich heiress reassuring titled suitor).
–  Half page artwork by Angus MacDonall, “Getting Even,” Little girl sticking her tongue out at a car driver who slammed on his brakes as the traffic cop directed him to wait.
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, “The friend who never fails,”  dog following his family down the road as they try to take a motor trip without him.
– Some current events include : Ex-Police Commissioner Bingham (fired by the current mayor) may run for Mayor of New York, Mr. Otto Bannard is also a candidate, as is William Williams; Tammany hall; Big agriculture getting a tax put on their produce (pineapples, lemons, citrus) so they can make a bigger profit; “Let a few of us get rich by taxing all the rest”; Dr. Joseph Cochran at the Presbyterian General Assembly in Denver said that State Universities are godless.
– The Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau (a humorous kind of Ann Landers column).
– Charming quarter page artwork by Denison, “High Life : the Robinsons moved in before the apartment was really finished,” they are eating a meal while sitting on a high rise girder!
– Who’s Who on Olympus by John Kendrick Bangs : Vulcan and Mercury.
– And much, much more humor, art, and sarcastic commentary!  So NEAT!