Judge, 1916-01-22 · page 20 of 28
Judge — January 22, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous reprints from European satirical magazines (Punch, Sketch, Fliegende Blätter, etc.), likely from WWI era, demonstrating how different nations joked about wartime conditions. Key items include: **"Week End"** (Berlin): A German couple embarrassed because they presented bread ration cards instead of visiting cards to an official—satirizing food scarcity under wartime rationing. **"A Nice Remedy"** (Munich): A neighbor criticizes a woman giving her crying child a toy trumpet as a pacifier—dark humor about noise and domestic annoyance during wartime. **"Our Silent Navy"** (London): A joke about submarine warfare, where a sailor "tips her up when we want to dive"—punning on naval operations. **"Logic"** (Paris): French satire about coal miners refusing to work underground, questioning English economic collapse if this occurred. The page demonstrates how Judge republished international humor to show American readers how different Allied and Central European nations satirized their own wartime experiences.
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