Life, 1927-06-09 · page 8 of 39
Life — June 9, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several unrelated humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine: **Main Cartoon:** Shows a family admiring the moon through a telescope. A grandmother prefers the moon "as God made it" to the modern, artificial-looking telescopic view—satirizing tension between tradition and scientific progress. **"Golfers, Attention!"** mocks British colonizers in Maluanha (fictional) who struggle teaching native caddies golf, since the locals' counting vocabulary apparently maxes at five. **Other pieces** include "Fisherman's Luck" (a bride/wife joke), "Where the Questionnaire Craze Started" (poking fun at survey obsession), and "Wait and See" (baseball speculation). The small illustration shows "A Scotch Mousetrap"—a mouse in a whisky bottle, playing on Scottish stereotypes. The humor is period-typical: colonial, domestic, and based on ethnic/regional caricatures.
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“ISN'T IT WONDERFUL, GRANDMA? ISN’? IT AMAZING?” “on! it’s VERY PRETTY, NO DOUBT; BUT I’M OLD-FASHIONED, 1 SUPPOSE. THE MOON AS GOD MADE IT.” Golfers, Attention! HE British residents of the South Seas Isle of Maluanha are reported to have built for their recreation a golf course, on the island which they are occupying un- der mandate from the Allied pow- ers. The native Maluanhans have proved to make very satisfactory caddies. No trouble is experienced from their pocketing any lost balls they may find in the rough. Professor J. C. B. Basingwell, of the British Museum, an acknowl- edged expert on the tribes of Oceania, states that while most of these peo- ples bave an enumerative vocabulary reaching ten or a score, the primitive Maluanhan, owing to his habit of carrying a spear in the right hand, never learned to count higher than five. It is understood that the only member of the Maluanha Golf Club who has so far turned in a card of over ninety is the Methodist mis- sionary, whose son acts as his caddy. RW. E. Fisherman’s Luck IRST WOMAN (at wedding): That’s a fine-looking husband you've landed, Mrs. Morris. Seconp Woman (a bride): Oh, he’s all right. But you ought to see the one that got away. A SCOTCH MOUSETRAP, 1 PREFER Where the Questionnaire Craze Started (Mr. A. Levy answered all correctly and got a ten-dollar fine. Mr. Pat- rick Murphy answered the last and got an apology.) " HERE do you think you are going? “Where did you learn to drive? “Who do you think you are? “Why don't you stop when you hear me blow my whistle? “When did you leave home? “Where's your li “Where's your eyes? “Say, what's your name, anyway?” Wait and See LIM: I wonder what sort of baseball season we'll have. Fram: We probably 6c won't know until several years have passed. comicbooks.com