Knitting humour, WW1
The Ruling Passion
Customer: Bring me some soup, please.'
Waitress (absent-mindedly): Yes, sir; purl or plain.'
A skit on the national obsession with knitting during the early months of the First World War when the home front was urged by various appeals to knit comforts for the troops in their thousands
Picture No
10794719
Media ID
47610115
Size
5000px x 4118px
(3.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Ruth Cobb in Punch, 25 November 1914
Date
1914
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