Life — April 28, 1921 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Prima Facie" Cartoon Analysis This is a golf-themed social satire drawn by K.M. Conway. The cartoon shows an older man with a cigar speaking to a younger man, with small figures in the background. The caption indicates gossip at a clubhouse about an engagement—the older man tells the younger one that everyone's talking about his engagement, but it hasn't been announced yet. The punchline suggests the younger man has "let her walk off with all your best clubs." The humor plays on two meanings: the social embarrassment of a leaked engagement announcement, combined with the literal loss of golf clubs—implying the woman has either left him or taken his possessions. It satirizes both masculine vanity about social status and the material consequences of romantic entanglements among the country-club set.