Judge, 1918-01-26 · page 9 of 28
Judge — January 26, 1918 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two satirical pieces about World War I home-front effects: **"Egg View Notes"** mocks small-town wartime adjustments—penny shortages halting mail service, church closures, and absurd spy hysteria (mistaking a ketchup bottle explosion for German sabotage). The cartoon's caption ridicules landlords imposing patriotic "meatless helpings" as war sacrifice, showing a boarder struggling with meager food. **"While There's Life"** satirizes the social pressure on married women to push their husbands into military service. A single woman aggressively questions why the married woman's husband hasn't enlisted, dismissing his wife's concerns that he's unsuited to combat. The satire targets both aggressive home-front nationalism and women shaming men into warfare. The final line—"The Kaiser is a Jonah who is trying to swallow a whale"—suggests Germany will be destroyed attempting the impossible (echoing the biblical story). Together, these pieces critique both excessive wartime sacrifice demands and aggressive enlistment pressure on civilians.
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Boarder (struggling with chicken back)—Our landlady carries patriotism too far. She practices meatless helpings. Egg View Notes tN EVERY By LESLIE V HE effects of the war are being severely felt here by all persons trying to mail a letter out of town for two cents, and because of the alarming shortage of pennies, the school-house Sunday religious services have been discontinued indefinitely. An explosion in Bill Waite’s groc Saturday morning, was plainly heard by everybody present, including Lem Bush- nell, our marshall, who immediately whispered that maybe it was the work of German spies. He quit a shrewd investigation as soon as he discovered that it was a bottle of ketchup. Ever since the home talent play given over the lockup, Friday night, for the benefit of the local Red Cross association, y Cannon has been much too mad at Tink Nitz to look at to him. Both of these gifted persons had very impor- tant parts in the drama, Near the end of the last act, Muley, who was a big-city agent for something, stopped in a cigar stand looked after b: nk, and bought a smoke, handing Tink a real dollar out of his own pocket, and saying extra loud for Tink to keep the change. After the curtain was let down, Muley quickly took his stage shirt off, and asked Tink for the dollar, but he didn’t get it as Tink said Muley had owed him one for five years, which was long enough “While There’s Life—” By LISLE BELL HEY were talking about the war. They were a married woman and a single woman, and the single woman was taking the lead. “Has your husband enlisted in anything?” she asked. “Not yet.” “Oh, but I suppose he will enlist in something right away,” came next with rising inflection. The married woman said she wasn’t sure. She even ventured the thought that perhaps her husband might be of more service in some capacity other than that of a soldier. The single woman dissented. “But I don’t think John could make a soldier,” said John’s wife. “As much as he might want to help his country in the actual fighting, I don’t believe he could. He is as patriotic as anybody, but he is not a fighter. There are lots of things he can do, but I feel certain he wouldn't ever make a soldier.” ‘The single woman was unmoved. “Oh, they can make a soldier out of almost anything,” she said cheerfully. The Kaiser is a Jonah who is trying to swallow a whale.