Life, 1914-09-03 · page 12 of 48
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**Top Cartoon ("For Corpulent Golfers"):** Shows a rotund golfer using a curved mirror device to see the ball, since his belly obstructs his view. This is a straightforward joke about overweight men attempting golf—no political content, just body-humor satire. **"Golf Friends" Cartoon:** A doctor examines a patient while another man watches, commenting on the patient's awkward golf stance. The humor relies on a doctor diagnosing a golfing problem rather than a medical one—gentle satire of how golf obsesses certain social classes. **Text Sections:** Include war commentary and New Jersey child-labor law discussion. The content satirizes news media sensationalism and debates about labor regulation enforcement.
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“Ere Hail, New Jersey, Hail! ReMmor has it that on July 4th the most stringent child-labor laws in the United States went into effect in New Jersey, and any State wishing to protect its rising generation at the time when protection is most needed would do well to communicate with her. We trust the rumor is well founded, as New Jersey has a great deal to atone for. Being the most trust-ridden State at one time, its soul threatened to become totally extinct, but it seems there was a spark or two left after all. Of course people who are trained to be cautious will be apt to reserve some of their plaudits until they see how New Jersey enforces her new regulations, They will be pardoned for arguing that New Jersey can hardly be expected to lose all her slipperiness at one fell swoop. We FOR CORPULENT GOLFERS all know that many good laws are passed, but few are THE “ KEEP-YOUR-EYE-ON-THE-BALL " MIRROR enforced, or, in other words, there’s many a slip ‘twixt enactment and enforcement. War News ING a song of War News— Hear the newsies cry Four-and-tweaty extras While you wink your eye! s opens, ses start to whirr, Telling of the things that do And things that don’t occur. Correspondents at the front Are sending in their tales. Writers at their desks invent Sensational details. Editor in his sanctum Is analyzing what Would happen if the awful facts Were somewhat as they’re not. “ Czar Has Something Up His Sleeve.” “ Kaiser's Making Faces.” “Parliament Engaged In Talk.” “French Go Through Their Paces.” “ Aviator Drops a Bomb.” Quick! Read it while it’s gory! Before a later extra tells A wholly different story. E.O. J. About All There Is to It 'HE real idea of war—that a farmer in Western Europe may have the privilege of leaving his wife and chi! dren and growing crops for the privi- lege cither of shooting another farmer in Eastern Europe or being shot by him. GOLF FIENDS “on, poctor! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM?” “WELL, FOR ONE THING, I DON'T LIKE HIS STANCE; THEN, HE'S AWKWARD WITH HIS CLUB.