Life, 1926-08-19 · page 15 of 37
Life — August 19, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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The top illustration shows a golfer mid-swing while other men watch, with the caption about "girl caddies for women." This satirizes early 20th-century gender norms—the joke appears to be that allowing women to employ female caddies (golf assistants) is somehow improper or noteworthy. **Mrs. Peps's Diary** is a gossip column about social activities and weather predictions. **"New Verses for Old"** offers humorous rewrites of classic poetry. **The American Scene** cartoon at bottom depicts a car encountering a "Road Closed" sign, with the caption mocking road construction detours as a nuisance blocking billboards. This satirizes American infrastructure frustration and the prevalence of roadside advertising during the automobile era.
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“My GRACIOUS, HAR’LD, JES’ LISTEN TO HER! WOMEN LIKE THAT.” Up betimes all agog to ee look at the barometer 27th hich my sister-in-law Dot did send me, it being a little Swiss cottage from whose door two chil- dren emerge if the weather is to be fair, and an old witch if it is to be foul, and so accurate hath it been thus far in its prognostications that I do think seriously of getting one for the man whose business it is to write the weather reports for the papers, for then his predictions would be more reliable. Lord! I do pray that his foreeasting of another heat wave he unfounded, for I did suffer such discomfort during the torrid days of last week that I should gladly have promised to live a more godly and upright life in the future if such renunciation would have guaranteed a drop in the thermom- eter. It was in the midst of that period that Effie Goings and I, con- versing foolishly as to the definition of a gentlewoman, decided that her top-line characteristic would be a determined attempt to draw on a pair of kid gloves on a day when the mercury registered above ninety de- grees. Marge Boothby to luncheon with me, but she would have nought of the luscious eggs Aurore and salad which I had provided, bawling instead for an undressed tomato and a thin slice of gluten toast, and stat- ing that she has again grown so (Continued on page 28) THEY’D OUGHT TO ITAVE GIRL CADDIES FOR New Verses for Old The Lover to His Lass INE is red, I am blue, Liquor comes high And so do you. Fishback. (TEACHER: Is there anything that hibernates in the summer? Tommy: Santa Claus! The American Scene “QHESE DETOURS ARE A NUISANCE.” “YES, THEY ARE MAKING US MISS ALL THE BEST BILL- BOARDS.” comicbooks.com