Judge, 1916-06-03 · page 7 of 28
Judge — June 3, 1916 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon - "National Coast Defense":** This depicts a beach scene where civilians (appearing to be families with children) are militarized, carrying rifles. The satire suggests combining "business with pleasure" by turning recreational coastal areas into military training grounds—a commentary on early 20th-century militarization anxieties and preparedness debates, likely pre-WWI. **Story - "I Wants More Wages, Mum!":** A domestic comedy about class tension. The caption "The eternal triangle—husband, wife and the cook" uses humor to mock working-class domestic service relationships. The joke satirizes household power dynamics where servants demand better treatment. **Bottom Cartoon - "Appropriate Wedding Present":** A couple debates wedding gifts. The husband suggests sending "a war kit and an iron cross," meaning military supplies and a German decoration. This satirizes either recent conflict with Germany or pre-war tensions, suggesting the newlyweds will need weapons—dark humor about anticipated warfare. **Overall Context:** This appears to be wartime or pre-war satirical commentary, likely from WWI era, mixing domestic comedy with military/national defense humor.
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= fe A SUGGESTION FOR NATIONAL COAST Why not combine business with pleasure ? The tear deep down for what might have been rose to the surfa * The tired mother was brushing her untidy children with one hand, and trying to straighten her own hair and gather up her be- longings with the other. Miss Chester turned and looked at her and her sticky little brood, at the boxes and bags around her crum- pled skirts, at the lines of worry around her fretful eyes, and the words of the little girl echoed in her mind, * He gets mad. ‘nd goes out, ’nd gets drunk! “Did you live in Carrington?” she asked, “Carrington, Ver- mont? “Yes,” the woman answered wonderingly, “that’s where we're coming from now d Chester swallowed hard, and then taking a deep breath: “Did you—er—by any chance—" the man was ¢ g her train now, but she had started and the memory deep down in her heart had to be satisfied lid you by any chance ever know a Mr. Orville C from there?” “Surel: the woman said without stopping her attentions to hildren, who by now were all sniveling, because she was the thr and hurriedly and picked up ing Miss Chester's train again. she rose and gathered her handsome furs about he her neat morocco b “Little Natal she said, stooping and kissing the sticky little mouth, “tell your father that you met an old friend of his to-day and that her name is Natalie too—Natalie Chester!” and with a wave of her hand that was very joyous—for the tear for what might have been had overflowed and dried forever—she hurried through the gate and to her train. ‘The other woman stared after her. ell!” she said. “Well! So that’s the girl he was once engaged to—a bleached blond! well!”” But the tear that was in her heart because of what was went on bubbling and bubbling. “IL Wants More Wages, Mum!" The eternal triangle—husband, wife and the cook. APPROPRIATE WEDDING PRESENT Wife—What shall we send them—cut glass or silver? Husband—Neither. Ship them a war kit and an iron cross. He ‘ll need ‘one and deserve the other. comicbooks.com