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A young couple, wearing formal evening dress at a fashionable card party, discuss whether the card game “euchre” is gambling, with men and women playing cards at tables in the background. Caption: He. — Some clergymen denounce progressive euchre as gambling. She. — I think they’re horrid! He. — But I think it is gambling. She. — I think you’re horrid!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-24
The Russian bear, wearing a military uniform and with sword drawn, stands on one side of a ditch. Facing the bear on the other side of the ditch are various rulers, including “Japan,” “Germany,” “France,” “Italy,” and “Austria,” as well as John Bull representing “England” and Uncle Sam, standing, holding rifles with fixed bayonets. Behind them sits a man labeled “China,” laughing.
Western nations and Japan, in the last chapters of the Boxer Rebellion, had to deal with what was almost a rear-guard movement — the forces of the Russian Czar were attempting to profit from the chaos and preoccupation in the Celestial City. It was a foreshadowing of Russia (Soviet, not Imperial) declaring war on Japan, scant days before its surrender in World War II. J. S. Pughe’s cartoon suggests that the Western and Japanese nations were beneficent, perhaps welcome, protectors of China, which was not the case, at least in the Chinese view.