Life, 1921-08-18 · page 26 of 35
Life — August 18, 1921 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of humor: **Top cartoon**: A man in formal attire interrupts two others discussing golf, asking about "eighteen holes." The joke plays on the speaker's confusion about golf rules—he's forgotten whether the object is knocking the ball into holes or holes into the ball. It's gentle absurdist humor about the complexity (or apparent absurdity) of golf. **"Mood" poem**: A satirical romantic poem where a lovesick man waxes poetic about love and music, until interrupted by the practical reality: concert tickets cost "six-and-a-half" (dollars), prompting him to angrily refuse. The satire punctures romantic idealism with working-class economics. **"Easier Said Than Done"**: A brief joke about post-WWI politics—Germany must be credited with something: paying war indemnities. This references reparations Germany owed after World War I. **"Twenty Things You Cannot Teach a Boy"**: A humorous list by Edmund J. Kiefer cataloging boyish mischief and independence—truancy, sneaking into baseball games, running from police—capturing early 20th-century childhood antics with affectionate exasperation.
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