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# "The Energy of the Atom" This cartoon satirizes domestic conflict over household chores. A defiant wife refuses to wash dishes, declaring "No Ma'm! I will not wash the dishes to-night!" while her exasperated husband responds with "Wh-a-aat!" The title's reference to atomic energy is the joke: the wife's refusal to perform her expected domestic duties is portrayed as releasing explosive, uncontrollable force—comparable to splitting an atom. The cartoon mocks both the wife's rebellion against traditional gender roles and the husband's shocked reaction to this challenge to domestic hierarchy. This reflects early-20th-century anxieties about changing women's roles and the challenge to Victorian domestic expectations, treating female assertion of independence as dangerously disruptive to the home.
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To a Complete Letter- Writer By THOMSON BurRTIS Farr maiden, I’ve wandered about here and there a bit, Meeting with damsels of beauty quite rare, All of them surely had more than their share of it— Some of them crooked, but most of them square. Lots of them fled me and some tried to capture me, (All of the latter nearsighted or dumb) One had the power (perhaps) to en- rapture me, For a moment I thought that my true love had come. On these adventures I throve tempor- arily, Caring but little and laughing the while, Finding that when I was dropped arbitrarily, I could live on without losing my smile. And now I am caught in a snare in- tellectual That’s new and delightful—re- freshing to me, To be caught by a maiden with pen so effectual Lightens drab life with a rare piquancy. How little I dreamed that a midsummer day’d be Marked by my _ downfall with ink and a stamp! And now may the gods who’ve so kindly remembered me Preserve you forever— from digital cramp. High-Powered By Victor DAVIES OU know they have the real stuff out there at Oscawana. Were you out there for the races the other Sunday? Well, I hiked over to Abele’s, there, instead of going to the Lake NO MAM! 1 WILL NOT WASH THE DISHES TO-NIGHT ! Drawn by C. W. Kanes. “THE ENERGY OF THE ATOM.” House and on the way back across the neck of woods, I heard some low muttering. “Holy Mackerel, some kick!” in sotto voce. Then considerable rattling, and a loud grunt. “There! One wallop, and it set me on my ear.” “It’s got the kick of an army mule!” Cautiously, I crept closer to get a better look-in. But they must have been clever. I could see nothing. I could swear that I heard a bottle clink. “Talk about raisins and yeast, it’s got nothing on this!” My mouth was like parchment, and I sprang out before them. There Drawn by Paut ReILty. WHEN YOU GET BACK HOME: THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE, 9 they stood, looking half-ashamed, be- fore a Ford. I dropped to my knees, beseech- ingly. “Save me! Tell me the recipe!” “Oh, Lordy!” they shouted, rais- ing their hands simultaneously in horror. “Tell me, for charity, or gold!” They both registered deep despair, the smaller one piped out: “There’s no recipe for this.” “No?” I begged, agonizingly. “No! We was just trying to start this second-hand flivver of his’n.” I don’t remember anything else until I came to in the boathouse, and then they told me that I had refused to take a swig from an offered flask. I promptly fainted again! The First Strike T HE Prodigal Son spent all his money in riotous liv- ing; then when he came home his father ran, fell on his neck, kissed him, gave him the best robe, a ring for his finger, and shoes for his feet, and killed the fatted calf. When the elder son came from the fields and heard the music and dancing he re- fused to go in. And that is where the strike idea originated. Double Dealing Two persons are cheated when one accepts a bribe. comicbooks.com