Judge, 1885-02-21 · page 5 of 16
Judge — February 21, 1885 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces of satire: **Left side:** A domestic comedy about Mr. Duffy, a dentist, who accidentally strikes his wife's tooth with a hammer while filling it, destroying her dental work. The joke plays on marital mishap and professional incompetence—his "one great and only" love (his wife) is literally lost when the filling is destroyed. **Right side:** A cumulative poem-and-illustration sequence mocking a vagrant ("the bum from Bumtown"). Someone anonymously doses the bum's beer with ipecac (an emetic), causing him to become ill. The illustrations show the cascading consequences: the gutter where he vomits, the police ambulance that retrieves him. The satire targets both the homeless man (portrayed as a social nuisance) and the unknown prankster who torments him for amusement. It reflects period attitudes treating poverty and homelessness as objects of ridicule rather than sympathy.
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