Generosity

I see a lot of 'bell-ringers' out this season, and they represent an awful lot of people who deserve to benefit from any generosity that we can afford to give. We're all in this together!

Russell Patterson — 1930s

Newsstand

This is a beautiful rendering that is funny with incongruity and informative with a roll call of glamourous mags in 1929.

Personally, I'm not familiar with Anthony Weekly, Oh Baby, Class, Spur, or Mercury magazines, but I'd like to be. Ya really got to wonder what he's got stashed behind the counter, and not just in the way of magazines.

Russell Patterson — Newsstand — 1929

The Meaning of Life

A quote you may have seen before, but demonstrated simply and beautifully with a drawing by Russell Patterson, the great cartoonist/illustrator of the flapper era:

Unfortunately, I still have much to learn as I toil through the day.