Picture No | 10794719 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | Knitting humour, WW1 |
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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.
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Source | Illustration by Ruth Cobb in Punch, 25 November 1914 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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