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Judge — September 4, 1915 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous cartoons from European publications, translated for American readers during World War I. The cartoons satirize wartime absurdities and social awkwardness: 1. **Chambermaid/Keyhole**: A flirtation joke about a persistent suitor—the humor lies in the mutual spying through opposing keyholes. 2. **War Duration**: Someone naively asks a stranger how much longer the war will last, treating it as casual conversation—mocking public anxiety about the conflict's length. 3. **Belgian Fund Bazaar**: References WWI charity fundraising (Belgium was invaded in 1914). The joke: a woman selling kisses for Belgian relief is "sold out"—darkly humorous given wartime suffering. 4. **Nervous Curate/Wife**: An awkward clergyman makes a verbal blunder, assuming an unmarried man has a "single" wife—absurdist humor from social confusion. 5. **Lord Kitchener**: References the famous British recruitment minister, using nepotistic military connections as comedy—satirizing wartime favoritism in commissions. The collection demonstrates how different nations' satirical magazines tackled shared wartime anxieties.
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Copyright, Flierende Blactier Zimmermadchen: “Vor dem zudringichen Jean kann gar nicht retten! Jedesmal wenn ich durch Schlusselloch schaue, dana schaut er von der andern : Chambermaid—It’s impossible to avoid that rascally Jean! Every time I look through a key-hole he looks through from the other side.—Fliegende Blatter (Mu- nich). Copyright, Lustige Blactier A Modest Request “Ach vereeihen Sie, kénnen Sie mir vielleicht sagen wie lange der Krieg noch dauert?” 3 “Ah, pardon me, but perhaps you can tell me how much longer the war is going to last?”"—Lustige Blaetter (Berlin). At the Belgian Fund Bazaar “Are you the girl who sells kisses for the poor Belgians?” “Tam; but I’m sold out.”—Bulletin Before the Show Window “Si se comiera con los ojos, por cilla.”* “YVes—you can eat it—with your eyes!” —Blanco y Negro (Madrid). Two Singles The Nervous Curate (trying to follow an in- troduction with genial conversation)—And —cr—how is your wife in these trying times? The Introduced—I regret to say, sir, that I am not married. The Nervous Curate—Ah, yes, of course; how exceedingly pleasant that is! I take it, then, that your wife is single too.—Sketch (London). “This is my son. He’s just left school, you know, and wants to get a commission; but he doesn’t know what to join.” “Well, if you think it would be any help, I daresay I could get you an introduction to Lord Kitchener. You sce, a nephew of mine has joined his army.”—Punch (Lon- don). The men fi iebooks.com