Judge, 1917-08-11 · page 5 of 28
Judge — August 11, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts a military recruitment scene, likely from World War I era. Soldiers in uniform stand near a tent marked "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU," while civilians (including women and children) approach. The caption "Truthful little sister—Don't be angry, Willie! It's you they're looking at—not me" suggests satire about selective recruitment or conscription practices. The surrounding text includes humorous dialogues mocking military leadership ("Resistance Useless"), newspaper columnists, and literary pretensions. The "MacDougal Alley" poem celebrates bohemian New York youth culture. Overall, the page satirizes wartime recruitment propaganda, military inefficiency, and social pretension—typical Judge magazine fare mixing visual satire with topical humor for educated readers.
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Bringing It Home “QUHE'S an athletic girl, you know. and fell in love with him because he’s such a wonderful baseball coach.” “Yet she divorced him?” “Yes, because every time she went shopping he urged her: ‘Don’t bite on the high ones!’ ” Huh? The literary au- thorities who try to raise the literary level of the great commonalty advertise “When Mark Twain first wrote Huckleberry Finn,” etc. Did Mark write it more than once? Or who wrote it afterward? One Advantage Mildred—Women don’t have so many enemies as men have, do you think? Clarence—Maybe not, but the women Scem to get more pleasure out of theirs. YZ le Truthful little sister—Don't be angry, Willie! It’s you they're looking at—not me. Resistance Useless General Shotten—Why in seven kinds of blue blazes did you surrender? Major Shelski—I was laboring under a great mistake. General Shotten—What mistake? Major Shelski—The enemy started to storm our trenches with cups, saucers, skillets and rolling pins. General Shotten—What of that? Major Shelski—I thought my wife was after me and that resistance was useless. The H. C. of L. “Success in business is merely the knack of putting two and two together,” remarked the Parlor Philosopher. “And making it five,” suggested the Mere Man. He Knew Teacher—Into what classes were the people in the Mayflower divided? Bright Pupil—Pilgrim fathers, Pilgrim mothers, Pilgrim sons and Plymouth Rock chickens. My New York City Nursery Rhymes MacDOUGAL ALLEY by LOUIS HOW THe boys and girls that dally In fair MacDougall Alley, And catch their hands and sing, While dancing in a ring,— Oh, they possess uncounted leisure For to laugh and leap at pleasure! The boys and girls that rally In fair MacDougall Alley, And clap their hands and shout, While dancing round about,— Oh, they possess uncounted leisure For to fill their hearts with pleasure! Let us all be gay and chant, Scorning what we would and can’t; Let us make a score to tally With the boys and girls that sally Into fair MacDougall Alley! Somebody ought to tell Congress that everything isn’t popular just be- cause it is wrong.