Life, 1899-06-22 · page 7 of 20
Life — June 22, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 525 **"The Days of the Patriarchs"** (top left): A satirical cartoon mocking elderly military/political figures. The caption jokes that these men haven't changed in over a hundred years, suggesting their ideas are outdated. **"A Newspaper Puff"** (center): A critical diagram shaped like a bottle or vessel, labeled with newspaper mastheads and sections. It satirizes how newspapers are constructed—suggesting they're hollow vessels containing merely promotional puffery rather than substantive content. **"Not for the Young and Strong"** (main article): This piece argues golf should be restricted to elderly gentlemen, as younger, stronger people are making it too competitive and dangerous. It advocates keeping golf an "old gentlemen's game" and relegating athletic youth to tennis and baseball. The overall page criticizes both aging institutional authority and modern competitive excess.
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LED Pek in bilhe ng Wes He wae THE DAYS OF THE PATRIARCHS. Methuselah : WHY, BOYS, HOW YOU'VE GROWN, AND IT’S LESS THAN A HUNDRED YRARS SINCE I SAW YOU LAST, YOU'LL BE MEN FOON, A NEWSPAPER PUFF. CCORDING to General Otis, the invad- ers are making good headway, and are killing the patriots in large numbers. This is well, as nothing is more unpleasant to a true American than the success of those who are fighting for their inde- pendence. . ‘These wars of conquest are good things. Not for the Young and Strong. HE human propensity to go through the line at the least point of resist- ance is illustrated In the diffusion of golf. The game was introduced into this country for the benefit of the aged and infirm, who are not qualified for more robust sports, It has been taken up by the strong and young, who, find- ing it not such hard work as tennis and baseball, bring to it such vigor and play it with such unqualified zeal as to make human life unsafe on most links, The only way to protect golf as an old gen- tleman’s game is to raise the rates on ft. All that old gentlemen get in this country and age they get from superior ability to pay. The price of golf should be raised until such brutal scenes as that in the picture below are impossible, except on wild and remote links in the less accessible purts of the country. The young and able should be driven off the links and back to the tennis courts and baseball grounds, where they belong. comicbooks.com