Life, 1914-09-03 · page 38 of 48
Life — September 3, 1914 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The small cartoon titled "TRIALS OF A LADY'S MAN" (credited to "Cessy") depicts a domestic scene: a man entering what appears to be a store or shop while a woman stands inside, seemingly confronting him. The visual joke likely plays on the social awkwardness of a man being "caught" shopping or in a public space with a woman, suggesting either infidelity concerns or embarrassing domestic situations. The surrounding text is a lengthy essay on golf's origins and social significance, discussing how the sport developed differently in Scotland versus England based on geography and class distinctions. The page is primarily advertising (Phoenix Silk Hose, Whiting's Woven Linen, and the Biltmore Hotel), with the cartoon serving as light satirical commentary on contemporary social manners and gender relations rather than direct political commentary.
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Golf (Continued from page 399.) it without knowing what it was. Stag hunters knew what was meant by the windward of a stag; and other hunters knew what was meant by otter hunt- ing, which is more than I do. But they knew their way through a wood like their oldest gamekeepers. And they didn’t halloo till they were out of the wood, any more than their most attached poachers. Now, this particu- lar woodcraft or local cunning, good or bad, was impossible to the new aristocracy, who had worked in Liver- pool in order to play in Kent. Even when the successful commercial man has made his money by ability and experience (he generally makes it by mistake) there is no way in which his type of experience can be applied to the really rooted rural and local sports. A factory smells worse than a fox; but the fox runs away, and the factory doesn’t; more’s the pity. It is not necessary for the young sportsman to seize the fox by the tail, swing it three times round his head and hurl it to a great distance in order to make it proceed with some rapidity. —————— With every essential to account for its widespread favor - - style, shapeliness, luxury of quality and astonishing durability, no wonder that discriminating men and wom- en show marked preference for PHOENLX SILK HOSE Once you have learned for your- self its really sur- prising length of service, you too will become an habitual wearer. Made of pure-dy thread silk of th finest quality. distinctive Men’s 50c to pair $1.50 Per P. boxes Women's 75¢ to { $2 Per Pair Sold Made ia America” by by the PHOENIX. KNITTING WORKS best 235 Broadway 10) ae era fh When you think of writing think of Whiting. % WHITING’S WOVEN LINEN A paper made especially for the use of men in their per- sonal letter writing. It has a virile substantial quality that gives it character and dignity. For many years this has been a favorite paper with members of congress at Washington, and among men_of taste the country over. You can get this and the other leading Whiting papers at any first- class stationer’s. WHITING PAPER COMPANY Rew YoRE, PUILADELPHIA = CHICAGO Eut I have watched (with a tenderness that must have been touching to them) many golfers swing a club round their heads at least thirty-three times, while the ball it was their purpose to pursue remained motionless, and even indif- ferent. Thus we come to the third factor in the affair. Golf came from a land much leaner and bleaker than most of England, largely of heath and sand; and the long stretches of coarse un- dulating turf by the sea would be a feature of the national landscape if they were not used for the national I know some say it is not a game of the Scots; alleging that there were links in England before the ex- isting Scotch ones; but that is pedan- try. That is the way that people prove that Ireland is not a nation, until they are taken gently to private asylums. The determining bulk of Scotch peo- ple had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God; and often consid- cred the two as of a similar impor- tance. For the determining bulk of Englishmen, like myself, if there were English links they were what I will venture to call missing links. But the game made for greyer skies and barer heaths was rightly and of necessity less complex and full of natural diffi- culties than sports made amid the populous woodlands or prosperous orchards of the south. Thus golf exactly fitted the new problem of the merchants turned merchant princes. It is a country game, but it can be played by town people. A game suited to the sands of Fife and Haddington, where ene can break nothing but a sea-thistle WY Cony: WV STORE lossy —— aa TRIALS OF A LADY'S MAN Ate. WAG THE BILTMORE NEW YORK ¢ America’s Latest and Most Refined, and New York's Centermost Hotel Only hotel occupying a tire city block. | Vanderbilt aed “Madison Z 43d and 44th Sts., adjein- ing Grand Central Terminal 4900 rooms, 950 with bath— Rates from $2.30 per day. Suites from 2 to 13 rooms for permanent occupancy. Large and small ball, hanquet and ind suites ged for private function: Gustav Baumann, Pres, John McE. Bowman Vice-Pres. t 1 « a 3 ‘ I t t 1 1 c ’