Life Magazine – May 13, 1909 (# 1385) – Day Dreaming Maid

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Cover : Done in his wonderful fade-out or fade away style, C. Coles Phillips gives us a lovely young maid day-dreaming about her young man (in the soap bubble above her).  She is sitting on a side table with a bowl of soapy water and holds a bubble blower (see page 677 in this issue).  2Neat notes : the bubble blower looks exactly like a candle snuffer.

– Full page color ads for Jones Speedometer (in black and red, has a motorcycle policeman talking to a motorist about how drivers with the Speedometer no longer get speeding tickets because they know how fast they are going); Hartford Tires; Olds Motor Works (Oldsmobile lighting up a picnic under the full moon).
– Full page black and white ads for Harry S. Houpt Company (all text, Herreshoff, the smart light car of class); Republic Staggard Tread Tires.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (It might have been, various historical characters as each other); illegible (The Crossways, couple in a car in an intersection); Harrison Cady (A sporting note : Flies as spectators and matador-like participants with a couple who are in bed and trying to swat them).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Some prefer wild flowers,” The flowers are men and women are selecting a man either from a cultivated flower bed or in the wild.
– Some current events include : “We congratulate the Sugar Trust in being found out in some of its sins” (they had jury-rigged their scales so as to pay less in import duties) – The Trust ended up paying the government $2,135,486.82.
– The editor has a very funny column that includes poking fun at the problems of the rich.
– Half page artwork by J. Conacher “He’s farmin’ fer his health!”, two old farmers hold their sides as they laugh at a newcomer plowing his field.
– And many, many more smaller artworks and much humor!