Life, 1914-08-27 · page 4 of 44
Life — August 27, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page advertises an upcoming "Golf Number" of Life magazine. The cartoon depicts golfers on a tropical course, with the caption "Fore!" — the standard warning cry in golf. The humor appears to target golf's popularity and pretensions rather than specific political figures. The illustrated golfers represent various stereotypes: colonial-era figures in tropical dress, suggesting golf's association with leisure, empire, and upper-class recreation. The promotional text humorously exaggerates golf's appeal, claiming it spans "the world" and features "splendid lies" — a pun playing on both golf's literal and figurative deceptions. The satire mocks golf culture's grandiosity and suggests the sport attracts a certain type of leisured person. The page also advertises a coming "Deep Sea Number," indicating Life's pattern of themed special issues.
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Next Week the Golf Number. This Number, for but a dime, the world will span; in tropic clime, wherever man a club can swing and utter ‘‘fore,”’ or curse and fling his arms galore; wherever girls with tear and sigh drop balls like pearls in bunkers high, where human creatures ebb and flow NEXT WEEK’S GOLF NUMBER e ye ife will gaily go. Full of splendid lies. Few hazards, but what there are are worth while. You can go around the whole course, with its beautiful scenery, in about three-quarters of an hour for only ten cents. Enclosed find One Dol- lar (Canadian Do You Yacht— 22.2n5 or nacht? No matter whacht = may be your lacht, the Deep Sea Number, which is coming immediately after the Golf Number, in spite of itsobvious- ly cooling breezes, will as usual contain much stuff known as - a Open only to new subscribers; no sub- Se scription tenewed at this rate. For further particulars LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York 60 watch this spacht. One Year $5.00. (Canadian $5.52, Foreign $6.04)