Judge, 1916-11-11 · page 18 of 28
Judge — November 11, 1916 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page compiles humorous shorts from European satirical magazines during World War I. The jokes reflect wartime anxieties and social disruptions: **"Hardships of Wartime"** mocks civilians complaining about suffering while soldiers fight. **"Who'd Have Thought It?"** shows class mobility from war—a golf caddie is now a captain, his former superior now a waiter, inverting peacetime hierarchies. **The submarine joke** satirizes women reading exaggerated war propaganda ("extravagance" posters), leading one to absurdly worry a donkey might be torpedoed at a seaside resort. **"Soldiers of the Sea"** depicts two women meeting at a beach town, each trying to appear younger—likely mocking vanity amid wartime. The page demonstrates how Judge reprinted international humor showing how different nations' civilians coped with or misunderstood the war's realities.
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Frau—Praher war mein \ seitdem er Skat spielt, hat ¢ bald mit der Leber zu tun! C in doch nicht beh he > sund, aber jem Herzen sound he is worrying over his heart or his liver. u don’t mean to say that playing skat is bad for him?” “It certainly is. He always plays with the doctor and the druggist.”—Meggen- dorfer-Blaetter (Munich). as a log, but alw Hardships of Wartime Quelle guerre! Je n’ai jamais tant souffert “What a war! Never have I suffered so!” —Le Rire (Paris). Anzac officerp—That’s a pretty sad-look- ing crock you've got there, Foran, Cornstalk trooper—Well, ’e ain't much to look at, sir, but ‘e throws a dandy shadder when it's real hot!—London Opinion. Nurse—On no account let them splash through the deeper pools, donkey man, in case of lurking submarines. If Gwendoline were torpedoed I should never hear the last of it!—Passing Show (London). Who'd Have Thought It? ix-caddie (to member of Golf Club on leave from the Front)—Ah, sir, war’s a rummy thing. It’s made some changes here. Who'd have thought, two years ago, when me and you used to go round together, that now you'd be a capting and me a *ead-waiter?—Punch (London). 5 | Sie haben “This sea a with you wonder- fully; you look ten years younger.” “How can you tell that didn't know me when I was fifteen.”"—Fliegende Blactter (Munich). Soldiers of the Sea The unfortunate meeting of Mrs. Ken sington Gore (who has read the “‘extrava- nce” war-posters and is spending a few at little Shrimpington-on-Sea in order to soil her new clothes) and Mrs. Bromptoa Rhode (who has come to the same place for the same purpose).—Sketch (London). cOMmeDeoks i mT |