Life Magazine – November 29, 1917 (# 1831) – Dreaming of Home Together

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Cover: Young couple looking in crystal ball at a house, “Where two can live as cheaply as one,” art by Paul Stahr.

– Full page color ads for Willys-Overland Willys Knight cars (Gorgeous art, not signed with blue car, hunter and dog, autumn forest), Pall Mall cigarettes (with art of Naval items (first on land and sea).

– Full page black and white ads for Edison phonograph, Packard Landulet auto (with nice art), Ladies’ World magazine.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Donald McKee (Art, the handmaiden of patriotism … various posters), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days, ye unexpected return of ye lord and ladye), Thomas Starling Sullivant (King Solomon to his slave, “Thy duty is to remind me of the anniversaries of my weddings), Popini (1:30 AM : ex-actor, now married and settled down, receives a visit from four old comrades), Fred G. Cooper (David and Goliath do it for the movies).

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Leonie Berthievas (Baby 248), Jeanne Boyer (Baby 1576) with her family, Michelle Kirsch (Baby 1356) with her mother.

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (None so blind, Democracy and Civilization trying to pull Lady Germany away from Hohenzollernism.).

– Some current events include : November 17 was a dark day for war news, Russian collapse, Italian disaster, Allied War Council in Paris, Germans may capture and destroy Venice, It is requested that we all go light on coal (we are fifty million tons short of what we need).

– And much, much more.