Judge, 1918-09-28 · page 8 of 32
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# Analysis for Modern Readers **"The Seven That Were"** satirizes the obsolescence of ancient monuments in light of World War I (begun August 1914). The Seven Wonders of the World metaphorically "confess" that modern wartime developments have superseded them: - The Pyramids pale beside the Fuel Administration - Hanging Gardens versus Allah's annexed gardens - The Sphinx outdone by Colonel House's diplomacy - Ancient structures rendered insignificant by wartime industrial/military scale The final jabs mock Germany ("crooked as German diplomacy") and celebrate Allied fortifications as superior to the Great Wall of China. **"Making It Easy"** addresses the acute domestic labor shortage during WWI. A cook quits her employer to work in a munitions factory (fuse manufacturing), returning only temporarily to "rest." She plans to earn enough for luxury goods—reframing factory work as economically preferable to domestic service. The satire critiques how wartime labor demands have overturned traditional household hierarchies and servant relationships. Both pieces reflect 1914-1918 anxieties about war's disruption of normal life.
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Drawn by Zim “From a Lirrte Acorns Spranc tne Micuty Oak.” Making It Easy By Cuestertox Topo ad HAT does this mean With sorrow and reproof in her eyes, the mistress of the house gazed reproach- fully at the young woman who had been with her as cook for the past three weeks. “Mary,” she said, “think of how proud I am of you! Why, you are the only cook left in the whole neighborhood. Have I not been good to you?” “You certainly have, ma’am.” “Have I not let you do as you please; given you your evenings; let you sleep in the morning; raised your w: and treated you like one of the family? And did you not give me to understand that you would stay with me permanently?” “Yes, ma’am, in a way, maybe I did, but—— “Then why do you leave me so suddenly?” The rare and indeed practically obsolete creature she addressed sighed deeply. “Well you see ma’am, it’s this way,” she replied. “I’m working in a fuse factory, but I got tired out and thought I would come here for a long rest. But you've done so well by me and I feel so much better and stronger that I think I shall go back and make enough to buy me a pair of diamond earrings I saw in a show-window the other evening.” Engaged Say, fellow, when you have slipped it Safe home on her finger slim, You can feel them say (when you've “Well, what can she sce in him?” The Seven That Were By Bexyasux De Cassenes HE Seven Wonders of the World, a bit worrisome over | their prestige since the tremendous happenings on the planet Earth beginning in August, 1914, called a mecting to organize a League of Common Defense against the seven new wonders of the world. They went into secret session down in Patagonia and made general confession of their innocuous desuetude. We cull these laments from their minutes just made public. The Pyramids—The glory of my uselessness is gone. Look at the Fuel Administration. The Hanging Gardens of Bablyon—Why hang any longer? Look at all the gardens of Allah that Gott has annexed. The Sphinx—I am no longer a riddle. Colonel House found me out and appropriated my trick. The Temple of Diana of E-phesus—Hog Island makes me look like a roof garden belvedere The Coliseum of Rome—Farewell, farewell to all my blood-stains. I became a mere dog-pound after the kaiser entered Belgium. The Leaning Tower of Pisa—If I leaned to the ground and wiggled myself into a corkscrew I could never be as crooked as German diplomacy. The Great Wall of China—I feel like a hurdle-gate in a flea circus when I look at the Great Wall of the Allies. Drown by Cauvent Sarria “Man Works rrom Sux to Sux, put Wosan’s Work Is Never Done!” comicbooks.com