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Judge — September 16, 1916 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous anecdotes and cartoons from European publications, satirizing WWI-era social conditions. Key themes include: **Divorce & Family Disruption**: "Children of the Much Divorced" mocks German/European divorce rates through a dark joke—one child boasts having "its own mama" (implying multiple stepmothers from remarriage), treating family fragmentation as absurd competition. **Wartime Privation**: "He Wouldn't Pay Their Bills" references doctors abandoning a patient over unpaid fees, reflecting economic hardship. "Getting Even" shows a soldier punished by a nurse for Sunday work—commentary on civilian wartime resentment. **Military Life**: "Didn't Feaze Him" plays on young women's exaggerated fear responses to military maneuvers as romantic opportunity. "Coast Defense Force" depicts child evacuations or coastal defense drills. **Class & Miscommunication**: "His Little Slip" features a farmhand mishearing "shod" (horseshoes) as "shot," burying the mare—slapstick commentary on rural/working-class confusion. The cartoons collectively present European wartime society as economically strained, socially disrupted, and darkly comedic.
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Children of the Much Divorced Bei uns ist’s fein, bei uns hat jedes Kind sein cigenes Das ist noch gar nichts Bei uns hat jedes Kind “Where I live it is fine; every child has its own room!” “Oh, that’s nothing; where I live every child has its own mama! Lustige Blactter (Berlin). He Knew Little Willie was playing with the girl next door, when the latter exclaimed: “Don’t you hear your mother calling you? That's three times she’s done so. Aren't you going in? “Not yet,” replied Willie, imperturbably. “Won't she whip you?” demanded the rl, awed. No!” exclaimed Willie, “she’s got com- pany. So when I go in she'll just say, “The poor little man has been so deaf since he's had the measle: Journal(London) Getting Even Outraged victim of “Confidential Report” (being put to bed prematurcly)—Please, God, Nurse sewed for her soldier on Sundayj —Punch (London). Bing—Yes, that’s old Spriggins. Half a dozen doctors have given him up Wing—Really? What was the matter with him? Bing—He_ wouldn't London Opinion. pay their bills otten stout, my dear!” *s increased—it’s the war!”” His Little Slip The farmer—Ah! there you are! Where have you been all this time? And where's the mare I told you to get shod? The hand—Shod! 1 thought you said shot! I’ve just been a-burying of ‘er! Sketch (London). The Coust Defense Fore young Billy Binks, if you don’t surrender, in you goes!—Sketch (London) Didn't Feaze Him ! went the rifles at the mancuvres. “Oo-o0!" screamed the pretty girl—a nice, decorous, surprised little scream. — She stepped backwards into the arms of a young “Ban id she, blushing. “I was fright- ened by the rifles. I beg your pardon.” “Not at all,” said the young man. Let’s go over and watch the artillery.” —Pickings (London) Bild, Herr Professor? Meinen hter gut angewendet w ? “Hm, ich weiss ja nicht, wer's bekomme “How do you like the painting, Professor? Don't that the money for my daughter ng was well employed? “Hm, [ don't know who got. it.”"— Meggendorfer-Blaetter (Munich). a thin!