Life — August 9, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 203 Analysis: "The Sport Alluring" This page is primarily **advertising for Du Pont**, disguised as editorial content about trapshoot sport. The main article promotes clay pigeon shooting as entertainment for both men and women, emphasizing it as a "thrill" and social activity for "house parties." The photograph shows men at what appears to be a shooting range near water, dressed in early 20th-century attire. The satirical section below, titled "Men Whose Smallness Qualifies Them for Bantam Regiments," lists social types worth mocking—cheaters at golf, angry poker players, aggressive drinkers, price-gougers, speculators, and stingy Red Cross donors. This targets American social vices rather than political figures. The page also contains unrelated content about musical copyright disputes.