Life, 1925-06-18 · page 8 of 43
Life — June 18, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon: "The Silence Broken"** The illustration shows two women on a golf course with the caption "'What's happened at the White House?' 'The President went out to play golf this morning and made a hole in one.'" This is political satire mocking a sitting president's golf habits, suggesting he's absent from his duties. The joke's cruelty implies the president is incompetent—the only thing he does well is golf. **Other Content:** The page includes golf instruction ("Lessons for the Little Woman"), short humor pieces ("East Is West," "Fairy Story," "One Man in a Thousand"), and a technical diagram showing proper golf swing technique. Without a visible date or president's name, the specific target remains unclear, though presidential golf-playing was a recurring satirical subject in early 20th-century Life magazine.
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THE SILENCE BROKEN “WHAT'S HAPPENED AT THE WHITE HOUSE?” “THE PRESIDENT WENT OUT TO CHEVY CHASE THIS MORNING AND MADE A HOLE IN ONE.” East Is West ALWAYS thought I was a pretty fair student of geography until 1 heard a Montana lady in an Overland Limited remark: “No, my husband is not a Westerner. He comes from Nebraska.” And then I got into conversation with a drummer on the Observation who ad- mitted he hadn't been East since the last time he went to Denver. San Francisco is a pretty good town and so is Portland, Oregon, but some- time I really must go West. T. F. Fairy Story NCE upon a time there came a baby boy whose one grandfather was a millionaire and the other a candidate for the poorhouse. named after the latter. The baby was STROIT’S anthem is now “The Merry Dives of Windsor.” Lessons for the Little Woman Golf AIS club is call-ed a dri-ver, prob- a-bly be-cause it drives so ma-ny men cra-zy. To grip the dri-ver, place the club- head on the ground and then grasp the shaft with your left hand. What? Well, it is what the pro-fes-sion-al told me when I started to play. No, I do not be-lieve ev-e-ry-thing 1 am told, ex-cept a-bout golf. You will un- der-stand this later on. Now, you ad-dress the ball. Ad- dress means to meas-ure, Well, then, call it meas-ure if it will make you a-ny hap-pier. Raise the club-head slow-ly a-bove your right shoul-der with-out tak-ing your eyes off the ball. I ad-mit the pos-i-tion does dis-ar-range the hang of your skirt, but that can-not be help-ed. Golf was in-vent-ed by Scots-men who wore kilts. If they could stand it, you can. Bring the club-head down, and ai-ter it hits the ball, do not lift your head un-til the club has swung up-wards o-ver your left shoul-der. There, there. That was an ac-ci-dent. I will take you to the pro-fes-sion-al and have him give you a new dri-ver. And while we are there, you can make ap-point-ments with him for fu-ture les-sons. It will be ex-pen-sive, but cheap-er in the long run than a di-vorce. James Kevin McGuinness. One Man in a Thousand MITH is a remarkable fellow. He buys a bargain straw hat late in the season to wear the next year, Nothing remarkable about that? Lots of fellows do the same thing? Yes; but when the next year comes Smith wears his. DIAGRAM SHOWING CORRECT METHOD comicbooks.com