Judge, 1918-06-15 · page 30 of 36
Judge — June 15, 1918 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily **advertising and literary promotion** rather than political satire. The left side promotes upcoming fiction in *Ainslee's* magazine for July 1918, featuring authors May Edginton and Arthur Somers Roche, with a mystery story titled "Kissed." The right side contains **WWI-era military humor** from Army and Navy publications. The content includes: 1. **"All in the Day's Work"** — lighthearted observations about civilian workers conscripted into military roles (street cleaners becoming cooks, etc.), mocking the transition to wartime service. 2. **"The Squad Mail Man"** — a cartoon showing soldier Algernon Spoffernagle trudging through mud and rain to deliver mail, captioned "bringing home the bacon." The humor derives from the contrast between the romantic notion of mail delivery and the unglamorous reality of trudging through bad weather. Both sections reflect American WWI morale-building content, using gentle humor to depict soldiers' everyday experiences and adjust civilian expectations about military life.
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MAY EDGINTON author of ‘The Woman Who Broke the Rule,”’ contributes to July Ary: the first large install- ment of a stirring new novel entitled *tAngels.”” In the cumplete novelette for July ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE the man who wrote ‘‘Loot’? and ‘‘Plunder,”’ proves delightfully that the detective-mystery story isn’t the only sort of fiction he is master of. Read “KISSED” Who kissed a certain young lady? She doesn't know, and you won't know, until the very end of the story. It was not a commonplace kiss. It a kiss that could be positively identified by the recipient. The reader will have a much _ better time than did the heroine in her search for the bestower. AINSLEE’S FOR JULY On sale the middle of June 20 cents the copy JUDGE | FuN From THE FIGHTERS Good Things m Our Army and Navy Publications All in the Day’s Work STREET cleaner is now a cook. \ Coney Island barker is now barking as a sergeant. \ floor walker is now mounted \n undertaker is now manicuring boulevards. \ former good actor is now a bad one. A blacksmith is now shooing flies on Kk. P. \ banker, caught in’ the draft, writes regularly to his girl, but doesn’t teller he’s in the mill Wadsworth Gas Attack. IF— If you lose your temper, don’t look for it. If you are in the habit of losing your head over here, you'll be sure to lose it “Over There.” If you do things with a snap, you may get one. If you are as straight as a rule, you will measure up to every opportunity If you are a real soldier you will offer your seat in the car to an officer. If he is a good sort, he won't take it. If you set the pace when you were in civil life, “continue the exercise in O. D. If you think the first year of army life is hard, try to think of the fifteenth. If you think making a hit with the ladies counts on a rifle range. change your aim, If you haven’t anything else to be thankful for, there is the con- Solation of not having to scan the want ad. pages every day looking for a job of work. If you haven't received your O. D. umbrella, see the Supply Sergeant about it at once. If a cook loses his suit case and the steak is tough, don’t get suspicious. If you are the only one in step. change it.—Trench and Camp. The Squad Mail Man T is true that there is some- thing exciting about get- ting the mail for the squad. But in rough or indelicate weather, as sometimes hap- pens, the exhilaration has its drawbacks. We have here caught Algernon Spoffernagle, inmate of tent No. 26, in the act of ‘bringing home th bacon,” as one might say. The weather is not bril as sometimes happens. is a perceptible drizzle, under foot the walking is not all that could be desired. One might even call the street muddy. The bystanders en- joy Algernon’s progress. —Wadsworth Gas Attack. In Account With Fate Soon bankrupt! —Great Lakes Bulletin comicbooks.com