Life, 1928-03-29 · page 13 of 34
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This satirical cartoon criticizes the growing popularity of golf among the leisure class, particularly on Easter—traditionally a major Christian holiday requiring church attendance. The illustration shows fashionable women at a beach resort choosing recreational activities over religious observance. The joke targets the perceived secularization of American society and the displacement of traditional religious practice by modern leisure pursuits. Golf, still a relatively new and fashionable sport in the early 20th century, symbolizes wealthy, frivolous distraction from spiritual duties. The cartoon's title expresses mock concern that holiday traditions are being abandoned for recreation—a common theme in Life magazine's social satire of the period.
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Ir Is Horep THat tHe Gorr Course Wit Not Entinecy Take THE Prace or Crturcn Tits Easter, NAatcre’s little choristers sing- ing through the silver rain and atleast six inches of granulated peat moss stressing a poignant simplicity of design outlined with a lavish use of bone meal and our own dollar assortment of Delphiniums in a splendid color range of French nude, boneydew, tangerine and moonlight with vibrant violet shadows among the foothills while vernal zephyrs urge the laggard lover to send for atension circular number eight de- scribing special varieties of gladioli reduced for planting in dense clay with a substratum of stones or barred Plymouth Rocks and featur- first second ep Fast Atom: It’s certainly terrible the way modern science is destroying the old ideas. Stoxn Atom: Yes, indeed; I'm all broken up over it. It’s Just Around the Corner! ing the Lanvin sleeve in Georgette or sheer lawn well irrigated and clipped before it gets the modish soft, uneven line, the all-important humus being obtained by the new method which supplies bacteria with small doses of cod liver oil or some other good tonic daily flushing the hills with early splendor and disguis- ing the long, low-hung lines of the 1928 model with hedges of bar- berry or hardy evergreen, carefully sprayed for mildew, black spot, rust, henna and the ever-popular polka- dot which will bind the violets in chaplets round thy bean and pea culture with a Slavic motif in dried milk for calf and poultry feed- ing old fancies waked by Spring's young moon, thus insuring a suc- cession of blooms throughout the incubator fitted with chic new lin- gerie in an iridescent shade of peach borer can be successfully fought with a solution of tetrabanzaichlorophyll applied directly to the soft young bark of the tomato and other shades of red sponsored by Paris, where men are wanted to sell dependable fruit trees and speed up production, so write for detailed information about our Northern tours and send your child to a cdmp wheré he can win a premium of six grand Dablias, for now that winter has waned, Madam Housewife, are you going to be a slave to the old-fashioned cleaning? Corinne Rockwell Swain. Ostaicu: Sit still! If you spoil my Easter parade I'll kick the daylights out of you. comicbooks.com