Judge, 1918-09-14 · page 19 of 32
Judge — September 14, 1918 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains six brief humorous anecdotes and a central cartoon about wartime vegetable gardens. **The Jokes:** All are light domestic humor typical of early-20th-century magazines—absent-minded hosts leaving lights on in Paris (causing legal fines), servants who steal everything except bathtubs, timing mishaps, and wartime tax anxiety. The humor relies on wordplay and class-conscious situations (servant problems, household help). **The Main Cartoon:** "Character as Revealed in the War Garden" illustrates how people's personalities show through their scarecrow designs. Different figures construct scarecrows in their own images—one lazy/slouching, one military-rigid, one elegant with a cane. The caption suggests wartime vegetable gardens (likely WWI-era rationing) reveal character through how people protect their crops. **Context:** Judge was a weekly satirical magazine; this appears to be wartime content, probably 1917-1918, when American home gardening was encouraged for food security. The scarecrow humor gently satirizes social types through their gardening choices.
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