Life, 1900-06-28 · page 1 of 21
Life — June 28, 1900 — page 1: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Explanation for Modern Readers This 1900 *Life* magazine page features a golf cartoon satirizing wealthy men's obsession with the sport. The caption shows "Goldarth" complaining bitterly about golf to friends, claiming he hates "her whole beeness"—yet admits he's determined to win money from "her" (golf personified as female). The satire targets the contradiction between golfers' public complaints about the sport's difficulty and frustration versus their compulsive, obsessive participation. The joke reflects turn-of-century anxieties about golf's explosion among America's upper class, who invested enormous time and emotional energy in the game despite constant frustration. The feminine personification of golf as a seductive but maddening "her" adds another layer of social commentary about masculine vulnerability to its appeal.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
TB VOLUME XXXvV. NEW YORK, JUNE 28, 1900. NUMBER 820, * Entered at the New York Post Office as Second-Ciaas Mail Matter, Copyright, 1900, by LIVE PUBLISHING ComPaNY. RICAN ~ sum g ati Goldstein (about to drive); LIKE IT! 1 HATE IF! I HATE DER WHOLE BRESNESS—GOLY, NATURE, SUMMER, ALL OV UT! His Friends ; THEN VY DO YER BLAY, IKEY? “BECAUSE I AM GOING TO GET MY MONEY'S VORTH OUDT OV DER GLUB.”