Judge, 1920-02-28 · page 17 of 36
Judge — February 28, 1920 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page collects brief satirical items about post-WWI America and social observations: **"You Know Grandpa"** jokes about soldiers' reluctance to discuss combat experiences, predicting they'll bore grandchildren endlessly with war stories later. **"Boiled Down"** depicts soldiers exchanging currencies (shillings, francs, dollars), satirizing the confusion of military finance across Allied nations. **"Helping"** mocks home-front "patriotism"—a man claims he "kept the home fire burning" by repeatedly donating to war bond drives when shamed by finance committee chairmen. It's satire on performative patriotism and financial coercion. **"The Memoirs" caption** references German generals (Ludendorff, Von Tirpitz) whose memoirs were appearing post-war, sarcastically suggesting they'd melted swords into steel pens for writing. **"Confucius on Women"** and **"About 28"** offer period-typical gender commentary—describing Chinese women's appearance and joking that men stop counting women's ages at a certain point. **"Capillary"** makes a chemistry pun about attraction to blonde women. The overall tone reflects 1920s post-war American humor and social attitudes.
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You Know Grandpa—“ It is so queer it scems to be almost impossible to get the boys who were in the actual fighting in France to talk about it.” “Oh, well! Just wait till they have grandchildren—it will be just. as hard toget them tostop talking about it then.” —Wichita Eagle Boiled Down—Corporal Silkins had arrived in France after a few days in England “How much money have you got left?” asked Corporal Wilkins “Well, I've got four shilling: two farthings, nine pennies, a sous and fifty centimes, but a quid unc, hali a pound I've only Camp Doi two dollars in cash.” Helping—"Where were you during the great war, father?” “T kept the home fire burning, my child.” How did you do that, father?” “Whenever the cloquery.chairman of a finance committee got up and said our wn could never, never hold up its head in or view the Stars and Sturjpes with a blush of shame unless we sub. xed a million or two to a war fund I struggled to my feet, check book in hand, and said, ‘Count me in on that.’” Birmingham Age- Herald. The Memoirs of Ludendorff, Von Tirpitz, Ete. Instead of beating swe shares it seems to have become beat them into steel pens.— holm) age Overheard in the Bois Confucius on Women—Said Con fucius: “Of all people, girls and servants are the most difficult to behave to, If you are familiar with them, they lose their humility. If you maintain reserve toward them, they are discontented.” Chinese servants must have greatly im proved since the Confucian period; at least modern times cannot parallel their excel- lence. As to Chinese girls, it is not safe to commit oneself concerning the girls of any nation, but they look discreet and 17 y French, M’'si r le Comte. ny life I haf nevare ‘eard anything slim and fair as flowers under their fringes of black hair, and gay as flowers, too, in their little pink and blue and violet «1 straight up to their chins. coats butto Vew Repu About 28—“Pop!” “Yes, my son.” “What are the ‘Middle Ages’?"” “Why, the middle ages, my boy, are the ones which, when the women reach they stop countin, Yonkers Statesman, Also Capillary—" Jack is perfectly devoted to that blonde. His family thinks it is a case of hypnotism.” “Huh! Seems to me more like chem ical attraction.” —Boston Transcript.