Judge, 1918-05-25 · page 21 of 36
Judge — May 25, 1918 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three war-related humor sections and one domestic economy joke, all from WWI era. **"A Trifling Customer" and "Economy"**: A broker jokes with a friend who moved to rural New Jersey to save money. The friend admits everything costs *more*—food, coal, carfare—but saves by having "no opera, no café meals, no theatres, no taxi fares, no distractions." The punchline: "couldn't you save money by dying?" This satirizes the absurdity of penny-pinching that eliminates all quality of life. **War section anecdotes**: Dark humor about WWI soldiers and leadership. One jokes about a sergeant catching a soldier breaking the rum jar; another has a child wanting to drop bricks on a neighbor from an airship; a third portrays Private "Tommy" advice to General Douglas Haig (actual British commander) about fighting battles after Haig took his car. A colonel's "narrowest escape" was postponing an elopement due to rain—trivial compared to war dangers. **"Father Starts a War-Garden"**: A seven-day comic strip showing progressive vegetable-garden work, ending with a collapsed wheelbarrow, mocking the "Hooveriz" (food-conservation) movement.
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