Life, 1927-04-21 · page 17 of 39
Life — April 21, 1927 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon: "One of the Evils of Neglect of Outdoor Exercise"** This cartoon satirizes a man who abandoned golf for a decade, now attempting to resume the sport. The joke: his golf bag has become a museum piece—so neglected it's grown moss and attracted wildlife. The satire targets sedentary lifestyles and the physical deterioration from inactivity, a concern during this era. **"It's Tough Being a Gentleman"** A humorous dialogue between tennis players, with one complaining about losing after deliberately playing poorly to let his opponent win. The satire mocks the Victorian ideal of gentlemanly conduct—where losing gracefully was expected—as impractical and frustrating. Both pieces reflect early-20th-century anxieties about masculinity, leisure, and modern etiquette.
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Ask Us Who Cares! WHAT tennis players lost their 1. professional standing because they signed with whom and what of 2 ould it matter very much to you if you'd forgotten the name of the boy that man in the gum business gave a sum of money to for swim- ming something and why? 3. How many mothers (a) mar- ried, (b) unmarried, (c) in the butcher business, have trudgened to England and with what results? 4. America? If so, give two of the 831 rumored reasons why, if any. What New York newspaper backed what flight in what kind of aircraft to where, when? 6. What famous criminal event happened in what year in what town in what Atlantic Coast State, and in what place was the trial held? When? And who got famous through it?. 7. How many votes for whom were cast how often in what eve! held when and where? 8. How many United Si tors started when on a flight for where, during which how many met their deaths and how many are still MOMENTARY INDECISION ON THE PART OF A LET BALL. It’s Tough Being a Gentleman “NICE get!” (Translation: “I hope you break your ankle try- ing to get the next one of those I send over!") “Too bad, old man, you were a trifle off your game to-da: I was lucky to (Translation: “You big stiff, if I ever get another crack at you I'll trim you worse than I did to-day !"") “My fault, partner, I should have ruffed the king.” (Translation: are The Melting Pot, (b) The Land of the Free, (c) Of the People by the People and for the People? 10, called (a) ins TH Answers will be found in the back of your head. But don't bother to look for them there. It isn’t worth the trouble it will cause you and they'll be wrong anyway. Carroll Carroll. Defection R. WEBFOOT (at the Barnyard Fes- tical Dance): Where is Mrs. Hen? I had this Egg Dance with he THE MAN WHO DECIDED TO SEASON, AFTER A FROM THE GAME PLAY GOLE (O-YEAR. LAY-OFF “You poor sap, we'd have been set two if I hadn't played the hand as I did.”’) “Hah-vud! Hah-vud! Hah-vud! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Prinstun! Prin- stun! Prinstun!” (Translation: “Break their nec Step on th faces! Kick ’em in the ribs! ‘em! Oh, kee-YILL 'em!" ‘Some putt, Bill!” (Translation: “Why is it that some people that do everything wrong have all >) the luck?) Baron Ireland. A Little Talk with a Candid Man “ ELLO. Good morning. How are you to-day “I'm not I'm sicl too bad. How's business? “It's terrible. I'm losing money.” “So am I. But good times are coming, I guess.” “Frankly, I doubt it.” “Well, we should worry. Have a cigarette?” “No, thank you. Frankly, I don’t smoke.” “Say, how'd you like to go to hell?” “Well, frankly, I don’t believe I'd care for it down there.” Frankly, Mr. Roos In_ the conservatory, sitting it out. ONE OF THE EVILS OF NEGLECT OF OUTDOOR EXERCISE. W.W.s. comicbooks.com