Life, 1925-06-25 · page 12 of 37
Life — June 25, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of humor content: **Top cartoon ("The Golf Bug Goes In for Croquet"):** Shows a golfer obsessively practicing golf using croquet equipment, depicting how recreational enthusiasts become consumed by their hobbies. **Middle text sections:** Include a poem titled "Ambition" listing modest domestic desires, and "The End of a Perfect Evening," a humorous anecdote about a moviegoer whose evening is ruined when their house catches fire—satirizing the unpredictability of fate and modern anxieties. **Bottom cartoon ("Our Distinguished Ancestors"):** Depicts people in an art gallery discussing ancestry. The caption reveals dark humor: a speaker boasts his uncle was "the first white man west of the Wabash to be killed by an automobile," satirizing both family pride and the novel danger automobiles posed in early 20th-century America.
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Anbition WANT my life a tidy room With window-boxes wide in bloom, Five casements open to the sky, A bench outside for passers-by, Shelves of rich volumes I have read, Two pairs of slippers by the bed, A clock unwound, the fire’s glow, And little flesh-pots in a row. Cornelia Otis Skinner, The End of a Perfect Evening OVIE FAN: I had had such a good time at the movie I laughed tears; they had a funny film in which three houses were wrecked, half a dozen autos were blown up and no end of things were spoiled. And then, when I got home afterwards, the fun was taken right out of me— my place was on fire! THE GOLF BUG GOES IN FOR CROQUET “PRE next peace trip organized by Henry Ford should be one to Windsor, Ontario, to get the boys out of the : ELL, that’s a new one on me,” remarked the flaming hotels by Christmas. youth as he donned his 1925 model straw hat. OUR DISTINGUISHED ANCESTORS } “YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF MY UNCLE SIDNEY, HE WAS THE FIRST WHITE MAN WEST OF THE WABASH TO BE KILLED BY AN AUTOMOBILE,” comicbooks.com