Judge, 1917-12-15 · page 6 of 28
Judge — December 15, 1917 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces from *Judge* magazine: 1. **Top cartoon** ("Santa Claus"): Shows Santa at a door telling an embracing couple that the poor "have all any mortal needs, now"—likely satirizing either post-WWI attitudes about poverty or, more probably, wartime rationing that made luxury gift-giving impossible. 2. **"A Bachelor's Christmas Sentiments"**: A cynical essay mocking unmarried men's relief that Christmas obligations to relatives are reduced. The satire targets both bachelor selfishness and the commercialization of the holiday. 3. **"Although Hungry" / "Berliners Behind the Kaiser"**: References post-WWI Berlin, suggesting German citizens remained malnourished despite the Kaiser's political downfall, likely commentary on occupation conditions or food shortages. The page's dominant theme: wartime/postwar deprivation and its social consequences.
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Santa Claus —No use leaving anything here. They have all any mortal needs, now. A BACHELOR'S CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS A Blow HEN a man’s nephews and nieces pick out Christmas 7 icure—What abominable luck! Just as Lam learning to presents they are always careful to select the most useless like potatoes, the newspaper says they are getting common aga things they can find. The luckiest man is the one who has no near relatives. Every Christmas tree is a waste of future possibilities in lumber. L used to wonder why the Hottentots were happy. Now L know. They have no Christmas 1 wouldn't mind Christmas so much if my friends didn’t make it an occasion for showing off their children When Christmas comes people begin to act as if they ex- pected me to apologize for living If there is an Inferno the man who invented the Christmas drum is in it Christmas is the most dismal day of all the year It wouldn't be so bad if people would remember that Christmas is celebrated in memory of a man who never married I prefer to pick out my own neckties ALTHOUGH HUNGRY “RERLINERS, worn thin, stand behind the Kaiser.” reads a newspaper headline, It means that in spite of reduced und the consequent departure of adipose tisste they still support the Kaiser's craze for conquest. No contemporary portrait of the Kaiser has come to hand It is safe to assume, however, that his diet has not even been - endangered, and thus, literally, that several of his emaciated Fe Ee Cook: bak tnt shew your maye ut subjects might be able to stand behind him without getting “Gayl & ye don't lke the table d’bies, why doo't ye into the picture. order a la carte?” EF 5 comicbooks.com XUM