Life Magazine – May 25, 1893 (# 543) – Listening to the World’s Fair

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Cover : Oriental scene with master beating slave who is laying on the ground, “Distant echoes : I listen to the World’s Fair in Chicago,” art by Edward Marion Ashe.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “She thinks she has done better, but the three gentlemen she rejected naturally hold other views.”
– Some current events include : Theodore Thomas is better at music than men (he is about to get fired from the World’s Fair, Harvard undergraduates do not have good English skills, Judy D. Cady Herrick of Albany, William F. Sheehan of Buffalo, Governor Flower vetoed the Epileptic Colony bill (mentions Sandy Hook and Sonyea property), Madison Square Garden.
– “One of the advantages of going early to the Fair is to get there before Chicago civilization has had too perceptible an effect on the manners of the foreign population of the Midway Plaisance.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!