Life, 1918-08-22 · page 9 of 34
Life — August 22, 1918 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical content about post-WWI social changes. "At Domremy" is a patriotic poem by Charlotte Becker honoring French sacrifice. "New Orders for Home Consumption" mocks British aristocratic pretension. The cartoon shows a figure fleeing a chaotic haunted house labeled with bombs, satirizing how English nobility who previously depended on foreign luxuries must now accept domestic alternatives due to wartime disruption. "Don't Try to Flirt with a Farmerette" depicts two rural women rejecting a man's advances—likely commentary on women's wartime independence and changed social dynamics as women took agricultural work during the war. "Cut Off" presents a brief dialogue about isolation during wartime, with someone mentioning missing mail and preferring American soldiers to isolation. The overall theme: post-war social disruption and shifting class/gender expectations.
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‘LIFE- At Domremy T Domremy the Stars and Stripes now stand Beside the flag of France, where soldiers kneel Within the little church, in mute appeal fo one who gave her life for her fair land, \nd whose undaunted love and strength command An homage and a wonder that reveal How their brave youth and service shall make real Her holy dream of Right’s high-flaming brand. \nd, shining soft, her altar’s candlelight Haloes each reverent head, and consecrates ‘These eager hearts to sacrifice and fight Until, where new, enduring freedom waits In world-peace, forged as Truth and Justice guide, America and France walk side by side! Charlotte Becker. New Orders for Home Consumption HE news that Generals Pershing and Bliss have become near-noblemen, having been elevated to the Knight- wod of England (to General Pershing the order of the Bath and General Bliss the order of St. Michael and St. George), will be received with mingled awe and admira- tion, Newport circles will be especially gratified. Hitherto Newport ladies have had to depend exclusively upon for- cigners for furnishing them with specimens upon which to expend their homage. To have a domestic brand of foreign 10 alae “ACH! IT ISS JUST LIKE DOSE ENGLISH TO BOMB OUR DEFENCELESS CITIES. DEY HAF NO RIGHT TO COMMIT ATROCITIES DOT VE INVENTED,” Don’t Try to Flirt with a Farmerette decorations right on the American premises is almost too great a joy, and as long as such a drastic innovation is being made, let us not only keep up the good work, but employ new orders to fit the more characteristic institutions of our country, We should soon have the Right Honorable A, R. Burleson, Viscount of the Royal Order of Delayed Mails; Duke George Creel, whose crest could be two Bolsheviki rampant, airplane couchant, azure on pacifist background, and Lord Harry Garfield of the Grand Order of Jack Frost—empty bins on a field of anthracite, shavings pur- suivant with clinkers predominant. Cut Off “AYJHAT did you miss most when you were wrecked on that island?” “Getting any mail from home. It couldn't have been any worse if T had been an American soldier on the western front.” comicbooks.com