Life, 1927-08-11 · page 8 of 36
Life — August 11, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three humorous pieces satirizing contemporary social issues: 1. **"Just Between Us Girls"** (top): A woman vents frustrations about the Prince of Wales marrying an American girl, using exaggerated capitalization to mock society gossip and anxious propriety. The satire targets upper-class concerns about royal protocol and transatlantic marriages. 2. **"The Golfer's Farewell"** (right): A poem by Baron Ireland mocking golf obsession, where a dying man regrets wasting life on the sport rather than meaningful pursuits. It satirizes the absurdity of prioritizing golf over family and health. 3. **"Premature"** (bottom): A brief dialogue where a father forbids his daughter's engagement, countered by wisdom about love's urgency. This gently satirizes parental overprotectiveness versus youthful romantic impulses. The cartoon illustration shows a doctor advising a patient, likely connected to "The Golfer's Farewell."
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6 Life [SUST BEIWEEN US GIRLS | © Y dear, I’m all hot and BOTHered—I au2 comPL. ly BAFfed and nonPLl this point because DID you hear about the Prince of WALES going to marry an AMERican girl? HON- estly, I think it's terribly exCITing, don’t you REally think it IS? Yes, my dear, there isn't the SLIGHTest doubt aBOUT it because it said in the PApers that some Sir SOMEthing or other in New ZEAland or some odd place like that said that the Prince of WAL to marry AMERican girl because it would FOSsilize good réLAtionships between ENGland and AMERica or something—can you BEAR it, my dear? Well, ANY- ways, I think it’s perfectly THRILLing because I HONestly think the Prince of WALL is SIMply aDORable because he is REally TERribly CUTE and all, do you know what I mean?” But GOSH, my dear, I REally think it would be a TER- rible responsiBILity, sort of, to be QUEEN and everything. I mean I wonder if a CROWN would be be- COMing to bobbed HAIR? Be- cause I mean I'd sort of HATE to let my HAIR grow again, my dear, do you know what I mean?) Well, ANYways, I could ACtually ROLL over and BUTter myself with dis- MAY at this point because I am honestly on the VERGE of col- because if this Prince of WALES person. should suddenly proPOSE to me I ACtually wouldn't know WHAT to SAY cause I think a marriage like THAT is something you ought not to rush INto sort of BLINDly—I mean I ACtually DO!" Lloyd Mayer. Premature H ER FATHER: Young man, your attentions to my daughter must stop at once. Yourn: But I’m not ready to marry her just vet awhile, sir. ‘THs love that makes the world go y D The Golfer’s Farewell HE doctor tells me my wind's a trifle erratic; That I'd feel better if golf and I were to part. Something I need, he says, a little more static... . Well, here I am.... Say, what did you bid, a heart? Never again to hear the click of the mashie Lifting the ball with just the right touch of spin, Never again to send it away for a flashy Drive and following iron dead to the pin. Never again the good old Saturday foursome! Billings and Koch and Snyder and me—all dubs Kidding each other. But—well, it never grew boresome, And we enjoyed it. Excuse me! Lesee. Two clubs! Mostly we topped and sliced and hooked and foozled. Jom we did the dogleg in less than ten. Wrangled and cussed—but we had a pretty durngoozled Good time.... And we weren't so rotten, for fat old men. Oh, well, that’s that. I never thought golf a hard game, But the doctor's afraid I might drop dead on the links... Damn it! I'd rather than yawn through a lousy card game. Gimmie my clubs. WHO cares what the doctor thinks ? Baron Ireland. round with that worried expres- Madam: ’LL MAVE TO HAVE ANOTIER BOX OP THOSE REDUCING TABLETS. sion, Druggist: LAY, 1 KNOW JUST HOW YOU FEEL. 1 USED TO BE A JOCKEY MYSELP. comicbooks.com