Life — August 22, 1930 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of This Life Magazine Page This page contains three separate pieces of humor content: **"Tees"** — A poem by Gerry Williams celebrating golf practice tees, illustrated with a sketch of golfers relaxing under umbrellas on a course. The humor is gentle, praising tees as essential tools for making fortunes in golf. **"Diary of a Flagpole Sitter"** — A brief diary by W.W. Scott documenting daily weather and minor events (Aug. 20-24), with a note that the rest was lost. This appears to reference the 1920s fad of flagpole sitting—a bizarre endurance stunt where people sat atop tall poles for extended periods, drawing crowds. **"Hands Across the Sea"** — A cartoon showing tourists in Hawaii encountering what appears to be a local speakeasy (referenced as "speakeasy" in the caption). The humor relies on Prohibition-era context, where illegal alcohol consumption was common even in tourist destinations.