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

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Hostess House program; Clare Briggs (cartoonist)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: NGO
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: War and the military, Home front, Gender and suffrage
Event: World War I
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Hostess House program. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-279.

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.