Life, 1923-04-05 · page 17 of 40
Life — April 5, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **humorous advice columns and cartoons** satirizing American social conventions circa the 1920s. **Sock Murchison's Golf Column** offers absurdist "etiquette" answers—joking that one can hit a caddie with a club, or that juniper (alcohol) helps golf. This mocks both golf's fussy rules and Prohibition-era drinking culture. **The top cartoon** shows a couple discussing selling their house solely because of a furnace clinker—trivial domestic complaints driving major life decisions. **"Hostesses"** satirizes social-climbing affectation: the column catalogs types of tedious, pretentious, or inconsistent hostesses—those who brag about knowing grandfather, invite guests who don't know each other, or vanish from their own parties. It mocks upper-class dinner-party culture. **The bottom cartoon** shows a child reporting Sunday School involved "sheep and little lambs, and the good and watchful leopard"—likely a child's confused retelling of Biblical lessons, mocking both religious instruction and parental disconnection from what children actually learn. The page's humor targets **manners, Prohibition hypocrisy, social pretension, and family life**.
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Sock Murchison Answers Your Golf Questions Etiquette of the Links Laddie: No, it was wrong to shout “Beaver!” at Royal Cortissoz en he was making an approach. Anyway, the U. S. G. A. has de- d Cortissoz exempt for the year 24. B. wins on a forfeit. The Caddie Problem cd: It is a misdemeanor to hit your caddie with a leather-faced cleck. I always carry a heavy nib- lick in my bag for that purpose. See Rule 56a; footnote; Encycl. Brit., | LX, p. 562. *** /rixie: Heliotrope knickerbockers go well with auburn hair, of course, but I advise something a little more —cer—well, you know. Yes, I like diamond-figured tricolor stockings. How did you guess it? ** * corge: Cut it about one-third distilled water. You can get ex- t of juniper in any drug store. lways try to hit the middle ball. *x** * nny: Send stamped, addressed lope for my complete list of ons why a husband should not with his wife. Harvey= “I’ve decided to sell my house.” “I thought you liked the place.” “T've a clinker in the furnace and can’t get it out. The clinker goes with the house.” “Dear Sock: 1 played a match with an awfully attractive man the other day. At the second green, I let him hold my hand. At the fourth, he had his arm about my waist. At the seventh, he kissed me. At the eighth, he drove out of bounds into the woods. I offered to help him look. Ought I to have? W. B.” Ask Beatrice Fairfax. eee Send in Your Problems—We Have the Answers. H.W. H. Hostesses Hostesses who are “so enchanted” to see me; _host- esses whose guests never know one another and who have absolutely nothing in common; hostesses who are Prohibitionists; hostesses who are invariably in a flurry; hostesses who make me dance with them; hostesses who tell me that they knew my grandfather; hostesses who ask me to dinner four times a week; hostesses who ask me to dinner once every four years; hostesses who are never seen at their parties. always “What lesson did you have at Sunday School, to-day?” “Oh, all about the sheep and the little lambs, and the good and watchful leopard.” \ comicbooks.com