Judge, 1904-02-20 · page 14 of 16
Judge — February 20, 1904 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This small domestic comedy cartoon depicts two children playing—a boy and girl engaged in role-playing a doctor-patient game. The boy asks if he can be "the mother sometimes, instead of always being the doctor," and the girl responds scornfully: "How could you be the mother when you haven't got a lap?" The joke relies on early 20th-century gender stereotypes: mothers are defined by their physical capacity to hold children in their laps—a distinctly maternal function. The girl's dismissive response suggests that certain roles are biologically determined and gender-specific. By modern standards, this reflects rigid gender expectations of the era, where motherhood was literally understood as a woman's primary defining characteristic, unsuitable for boys to emulate.
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D., of Paris, Doctor of Medicine, of the Faculty of Paris, in the New York Medical’ Journal, August 22, 1896, says: “There is no remedy as absolutely specific in all forms of Albuminuria and Bright's Disease, whether pring No. 2. seater chronic, os BUEFALO LITHIA WATER , accompanieaiy a milk diet. In all cases of pregnancy, where albumin is found in the urineas late as the last week before confinement, if this water anda milk diet are prescribed, the albumin disappears rapidly from the urine and the patient has a positive guar- antee against puerperal convulsions.” T. Griswold Comstock, A. M., M. D., o/ = Tekis Mey says ee ie pre- in Gouty an heumatic condi- scribed BUFFALO LITHIA WATER tionsasd in Renal Calcull, ac- companied by Renal Colic, and always with the most satisfactory results. In Renal Calcull, where there is an excess of Uric Acid, it is especially efficacious,” Medical testimony which defies all imputation or question mailed to any address. 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