Judge, 1917-07-07 · page 20 of 27
Judge — July 7, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects wartime satire from British publications, likely from WWI. The cartoons mock home-front absurdities and military life: **"Meatless day"**: Ridicules rationing compliance—a housewife forbids children from playing with toys during food shortages, treating recreation itself as wasteful. **"Tank-driver Lady"**: A post-war joke about a woman who learned to drive tanks and can't adjust to civilian cars, threatening to crash through a house. **"Patent perambulatory hen"**: Absurdist satire on wartime efficiency schemes—an agent pitches a ridiculous wheeled hen-cage as a patriotic farming innovation. **Market gardener/substitute worker**: Mocks incompetent farm labor during wartime (when able workers were conscripted), suggesting the substitute fears digging up Australia itself. **"War correspondent" joke**: Plays on the perception that war correspondents had cushy jobs compared to soldiers. The overall tone is affectionate mockery of British wartime inconveniences and the gap between civilian and military experience.
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Mrs. Henne—My dears, my dears; you mustn’t do that! It’s a meatless day. —Sketch (London). “After The War"—The Tank-driver Lady—Put the brakes on quickl Chauffeur—(formerly Tan ‘They're jammed, me lady, but don’t you worry. We shall go through that house at the bottom as clean as a whistle.—By- stander (London). Science in the Farmyard Agent—I submit, sir, you cannot afford to allow your hens to lay astray in these times hence our patent perambulatory hen hest, hay or fur-lined according to taste! ing Show (London). Exasperated market gardener (to substitute who is not shaping well)—Wot are yer afraid of digging up—Orstralia?—London Opinion. Tommy—What time, Shorty? Shorty—W ar correspondent.—Sketch (Lon- don). was your job in peace Old Bill ha get Pri actically decided to try to io (the ex-comedy-juggler- er) trausferred to another platoon.—Bystander (London) Question Yew farm hand—I felt I couldn't desert ne. Do you think she could be trained as an efficient sheep dog? — London Opinion. comicbooks.com