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This page combines travel advertising with humorous editorial content. The main advertisement promotes A-B-A Certified Cheques as safer than currency for European travel, featuring a photo of a Wagons-Lits (sleeping car) conductor and endorsement from the company operating European rail service. The editorial humor includes: **"Here Lies a Golfer"** — A mock epitaph satirizing the "perfect gentleman golfer" who follows all rules, maintains composure, never cheats, and—most ironically—"never lost a single ball." The repeated final lines ("and lies, and lies, and lies") mock the impossibility of such perfection, suggesting golfers are inherent exaggerators. **"Fight Talk"** and other brief anecdotes mock sports enthusiasm and college boy culture—including a joke about a radio announcer and a daughter sending expensive applause telegrams. The Charleston tourism section promotes the southern city's historical attractions and climate. Overall, this is a typical 1920s Life page mixing commercial messaging with lighthearted satire about American leisure, sports, and social conventions.

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32 Life TRAVELERS ‘The International Wagons-Lits Company operates sleeping and diniog-cars throughout Europe. “SAFER THAN CURRENCY” Says V agons- Lits “We recommend A-B A Certified Cheques as travel funds to our clients because we hed in all know they are recognized and parts f the countr service rea hes. They are, in our opinion, just as good as currency but far safer.” This ist General Ag nent of Mr. Leon Danle: f the famous € npag ts, wh and dining-car service s Wagons operates the sleep on the railways of E ABA Cheques are the offic of the American Bankers Association —the only certified t ld-wide acce ing by tified by Bankers . New York. You will find gold for travel. Buy Them at Your Bar AND: 0 tary “AU About Going Abroad,” sold in bookstores for $1. AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION A:B‘A fd CHEQUES TRAVEL MONEY BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, NEW YORK for the ineuing bi I travel | Here Lies a Golfer Heue lies a golfer; spring and fall He kept his eye upon the ball. id not slice, he did not he He played according to the book; No matter how the ball might lie, He never pulled an alibi; He frowned on cuss-words such as “Hades,” And loved to go around with ladies; He did not lose his self-control When playing for a ball a hole. ky Here lies a golfer, keen for sport; Replacing divots was his fort He gave the benefit of doubt To caddies when he bawled them out; He ne Or cast aspersions on their clubs; It was his custom, w To smile, . Such little things as topping drives Or playing foursomes with our wives.” dubs er sneered at timid a golfer; fall and spring He constantly improved his swir He almost never had to go For aid and comfort to the Pro; And, most remarkable of all, He never lost a single ball! These are the facts be He himself says so—here he lies, And lies, and lies, and lies! From “Grand Right and Left.” by Stoddard King (Doran). al surmise: Fight Talk “Dox'r be di in there and can't be on the t you all ha raged, fellows. Get hard. Everybody you know, But eas good a chanc as the Just keep plugging and Let me tell you mething. Once th was a fellow out for football that nobody thought had z his letter. nd didn't know any- thing about the game. All during his first thr rs of college he p the scrub te ds sat the bench during the games. ‘Then came his last season and he was still on the scrubs. and it looked as if he'd never make good. But although he didn’t know it, the had his eve on him and when the tain, who was the star halfback, got hurt during the Big Game the coach decided to give this little fellow his ch He only made two seventy-yard runs and a field goal the first fifteen min- was in there!! Boy, that was a turn will He was ~ utes be swell SN. in The California Pelican Worshiping from a Distance “My daughter has fallen in I the radio announcer at KXKZ." “Is it serious?” t is. Her bill for applause tele- grams this month was $19.80." with Country Gentleman Norio irks a genuine college boy any more than shaking out the envelope from home and finding nothing in it but news and love.—Detroit News. Charleston “America’s Most Historic City” Charleston combines the quaint charm of the historic with the comforts and con- veniences of the modern. Situated in the same sun- shine belt as is Los Angeles, Charleston offers all the de- lights of a sub-tropical climate, tempered by cooling ocean breezes. Drawing upon a background of more than two and a half centuries of cultural effort, Charleston has much to offer the student of the historic, the searcher after quiet, the sports- man, or the transient sightseer Historic Battie Grounps Worip Famous Gardens Sprenvip Gotr Courses Sea Istanv BeacnHes Huntinc, Fistinc, Boat- ING, AND RIDING Movern Horets Goop Roaps YACHTING wr CHARLESTON GIVES IN MEASURE THE THING DESIRED wh Donated By The City of Charleston, S. C To The Tourist and Convention Bureau Chamber of Commerce Charleston, S. C. Write for literature comicbooks.com