Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Having Fun With the Bread Cards. [ARTICLE]

Having Fun With the Bread Cards.

German humorists have found excellent material in cartooning the bread cards. “Give me your bread card or your life!” was popular. Ferocious bandits were pictured as relinquishing fortunes in gold and jewels’ in order to steal bread cards; cautious heads of families were depicted as mounting guard at night over the safe in which reposed the family tickets. Dinner invitations, instead of “R. S. V. P ” bore the legend, “Please bring your own bread*”—From “Is Germany Hungry?” in the Saturday Evening Post.