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title: Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin'? The Men Know, Home Folks Know. Y.W.C.A. Hostess Houses in Seventy Camps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aint-it-a-grand-and-glorious-feelin-ywca-hostess-houses-1918/
description: A six-panel comic strip shows a soldier at a training camp rereading a letter about his baby, then summoned by a messenger to the YWCA 'Hostess House'.
section: Collection
---

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# Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin'? The Men Know, Home Folks Know. Y.W.C.A. Hostess Houses in Seventy Camps

A six-panel comic strip shows a soldier at a training camp rereading a letter about his baby, then summoned by a messenger to the YWCA 'Hostess House', where his wife and child are waiting. The panels use a familiar newspaper-comic idiom and ordinary speech to present the program as a reunion, with the sponsor's name and the claim of 'Seventy camps' set beside it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?

[Panel 1] AFTER YOU HAVE READ FOR THE DOZENTH TIME THE LETTER TELLING ALL ABOUT THE CUTE THINGS THE BABY HAS SAID OR DONE
[Panel 2] AND YOU THINK OF THE TIMES HE SAID "PAPA"
[Panel 3] AND HOW SAD HE LOOKED WHEN YOU LEFT FOR THE TRAINING CAMP
[Panel 4] WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN A MESSENGER DELIVERS A MESSAGE ASKING YOU TO —
[Panel 5] APPEAR AT THE "HOSTESS HOUSE" [sign:] Y.W.C.A.
[Panel 6] — AND THERE IN FLESH AND BLOOD IS THE WIFE AND KID — OH-H-H-H BOY!!!!!! AIN'T IT A GR-R-RAND AND GLOR-YUS FEELIN' ?? [musical notes: TA TA TA TYA TYA]

The Men Know
Home Folks Know

Y·W·C·A·
Hostess Houses
in Seventy camps

—Briggs in the N. Y. Tribune
[signature:] BRIGGS
```

Panel markers in square brackets are FRAME's, added to show reading order; the printed text is otherwise as it appears.

[← A Black Mark for the Squad: A.W.O.L.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-black-mark-for-the-squad-awol-1918/) [All About W.S.S.: Every Stamp Helps to Save a Life, Every Stamp Helps to End the War →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-about-wss-war-savings-stamps-1918/)

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