
We know Raemaekers well from the unforgettable drawings done in response to the German invasion of his homeland, Belgium, and from his passionate critique of the Kaiser and his circle of high officials that conducted the war. Here he portrays, in a cartoon, much the same scene as given in the preceding photographs. In Kultur in Cartoons, Herbert Warren comments on Raemaekers drawing: "All the rare gifts of womanhood are here, but how strangely used! What a pathetic paradox! It is woman's privilege to be the mothers, the nurses, the ministers, the angels of life. But these are mothers and angels of death. They know what they are doing. It is for their men, their babes, their honor, they transforms themselves. All the woman's love and passion, her enthusiasm, her neat and delicate hand, her docility are here, making, moulding these shining shells, multitudinous as their namesakes of the ocean; and like them each is fashioned nicely to pattern, voluted, enamelled, burnished, with their strange knobs and grooves the product of long evolution, exact and right, and then stacked gross by gross, and thousand by thousand, canned earthquakes, bottled death, to be broken and to break to-morrow in the storms and on the ridges of war. Dux femina facti! What work today is not woman's?" (p. 70, Kultur in Cartoons).