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Judge — March 17, 1917 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous cartoons from European satirical magazines (German, French, British). Key pieces: **"Betwixt and Between"**: Police from adjoining jurisdictions refuse to help a robbery victim because he's sitting on the boundary between their beats—satirizing bureaucratic buck-passing. **"The Transformation of Hodge"**: A rural wife complains that female farm workers (likely WWI-era land girls) have made her husband vain—he now polishes his boots and grooms himself. Social satire on changing gender roles during wartime labor shortages. **"The Triumph of Admiralty"**: A mother tells her child the British Navy prevents German domination; without it, children would eat German sausage instead of fish and chips—wartime jingoism mocking German food culture. **"His Fault"** and **"Not Entirely Hopeless"**: Light romantic/domestic humor about courtship expectations. The page demonstrates how Judge reprinted European humor to entertain American readers with international perspectives on contemporary wartime concerns and social change.
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Betwixt and Between Hilfe—ich bin beraubt i Help! —['ve been robbed — mur- Both (together) “We are awfully sorry but we can’t do a thing here—you are sitting right on the boundary betwecn our beats!” Jugend (Munich). The Fun of It Lady visitor (to friend just married)--So you are not getting tired of studio life, ch? Artist's wife—Good gracious, no! It’s most interesting. Jim paints and I cook. Then the game is to guess what the things are meant for.—London Opinion. Malcontent Ce matin encor mon dernier a sels t de Did you see? This morning they de stroyed a whole column!” “Oh! — Those — terrible bandits!” “No, no—I'm talking of the censors: my latest article.”"—Le Kire (Paris). Boches such and U FROM OVER TH E SEA The Transformation of Hodge “Yes'm, since these women workers come on the land there's somethin’ wrong wi? my husband. "E wouldn’t think o' goin’ plough- ing now unless ‘is boots were polished and ‘is finger-nails cut, and a clean collar an’ tie; an now ‘e's started pastin’ ‘is ‘air back.” Passing Show (London) His Fault Sladter (2am neun ri Sagen Sie mir doch, was man tun n alt au wenten wie Sie " Bawer—Nit trin rauchen, immer in der Hes benbachtet Oe. 2, The city man (to ninety-year-old peasant) (< Tell me, what must one do to grow to be as old as you are? Peasant—Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep out in the fresh air. City man—My father did all those things and died at sixt Peasant—VYes, but he didn’t do them long enough. Fliegende Blaetter (Munich). Not Entir@ly Hopeless Muriel—-The man | marry must be a hero. Dora Oh, come, dear i so bad king as all tha London Opinion you're p The Triumph of Admiralty * Kiss yer ‘and to the kind sailor, "Erbert. Wivout ‘Im, Instead of fish and chips you might ‘ave to be brort up on Lager Beer and German Sossidge!” —Passing Show (London). A Park Idyl —Fliegende Blaetter (Munich). comicbooks.com