Life, 1920-07-22 · page 25 of 40
Life — July 22, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon ("The Migration of the Birds"):** Depicts a horse-drawn wagon carrying an automobile crossing a stream. The title sarcastically invokes bird migration, suggesting automobiles are the new "migrating species" replacing traditional transportation—a joke about the rapid displacement of horses by cars in early 20th-century America. **"Pausing for a Reply":** Baron Ireland's poem mocks golf enthusiasts' passionate devotion to the sport, then delivers the punchline: golfers who genuinely feel this "thrill" typically score between 106-124—terrible scores. The satire targets golf's pretentious romanticism versus the reality of most players' mediocre performance. **"One Consolation":** A brief joke about animated cartoons' inability to be color-filmed yet (a technical limitation of early cinema), presented as the one advantage movies have over Sunday newspaper supplements. **Bottom item:** A dry one-liner observing that despite precautions, New York pedestrians still avoid being hit by vehicles—understated urban humor.
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-LIFE-: 161 THE MIGRATION OF THE BIRDS Pausing for a Reply BREATHES there a man with soul so dead that he gets no surging thrill At the clean, crisp crack of the whirling club as it kisses the waiting pill? Is there a man who does not feel his spirit grow young and light As the driven ball speeds down the course like a flaming meteorite? Where is the man that does not feel the heart in his breast leap up As he sinks his putt on a rolling green full thirty feet from the cup? lf such there be, it’s fifty to one that he isn’t the man whose score Will average ‘twixt 106 and 124. Baron Ireland. N spite of all the precautions taken, people in New York streets continue to escape from being run over. One Consolation “ FTER all, the movies might be arti “Well, yes. As yet no Sunday-suy ent artist has found a way to color his animated cartoons.” “LOOK PLEASANT, PLEASE, JUST FOR ONE MOMENT” comicbooks.com