Life — November 3, 1921 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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That “Hawaiian” Phonograph Record HE first time that L heard it played, | thought of nights of tropic splendor, And dreamed I saw a girl who swayed Across a White beach, lithe and * slender. I dreamed of pirates, pearls, and palms, And lips that in imperious fashion Kissed, without any Freudian qualms, And breathed the very soul of pas- sion. The fiftieth time I heard it played, 1 wished the fellow who invented The thing could pay the price I paid, And occupy the flat I rented Just for a week. I wished his dad Had died while still a small and dumb thing, Or that his lady mother had Gone in for birth-control, or some- thing. The thousandth time I heard it played, I took an ax, I took a bludgeon \nd did with righteous wrath invade The flat beneath, and wreaked my dudgeon. I laid about me, blithe and brisk, Committing riot, crime, and murther; .. And that particular rubber disc Won't trouble anybody further. John McClelland. Prigs Is Prigs Is the Prig going out? To be one implies a certain strain of innocence, a simplicity that is dead against the spirit of the age. A Prig is a per- son who takes himself seriously—at least, in part—whereas the spirit of the age is to take nothing seriously, not even oneself, The Prig was all very well in his day. He was no doubt essential to progress. Someone, with sufficient semblance of breeding, had to rise and willingly undergo the inconvenience of treat- ing everybody else with contempt. It seems so ridiculous now, looking back upon it all, yet how difficult it probably was in the beginning. The Prig was a pioneer. We must not overrate his con- tribution to progress when we say that he overlooked something. He slipped a cog. In his general propaganda of con- tempt for everybody, he forgot himself. How careless of him! And yet this was natural. To be un- selfish was at one time a part of the scheme of evolution. The Prig could not realize that, in omitting to treat himself with the profound contempt he bestowed on all the others, he was Sounding his own doom. We know better now. To despise ourselves as well as everybody else is a sacred duty imposed upon all of us. T.L.M. BALANCE Not simply an even distribution of weight— the exact placing of the center of gravity. This is important, of course, but balance has a bigger meaning. Just as the low score does not represent terrific driving alone, or accurate putting alone, or clever approaching alone, but the best average of all, so does the best ball represent a combination of the best averages in its various qualities. That is one reason back of the popularity of the new Standard Dunlop 162. The 162 is the premier Dunlop Ball. In it are com- bined all the good points of previous Dunlop Balls, and new ones all its own. It is as small and as heavy as the latest rules permit— far-flying, accurate and durable. The Dunlop line offers you the choice of four excellent balls:— The new 162 (small size) The Magnum (large size). The Durable (medium size The 29 (small size) These balls are all Standard. They con- form to U. S. G. A. specifications as to size and weight. DUNLOP TIRE AND RUBBER CORPORATION OF AMERICA Golf Ball Department, 17 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. DUNLOP comicbooks.com