Judge, 1904-09-10 · page 4 of 16
Judge — September 10, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor pieces and illustrations rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **"Judge's Favorites"** - A poem about Dorothy Tennant in "The College Widow," praising her jewelry and appearance. **"A Rehabilitated Healer"** - A satirical story mocking a barber who poses as a doctor, using dubious treatments (hot towels, lavender cocktails) to treat illness. The joke targets quack medical practitioners and charlatan healers who exploited patients before modern medical regulation. **"The Dear Little Fellow"** and other domestic humor pieces mock marital and family life through dialogue and cartoon illustrations of children misbehaving. **"Mental Illusion," "Influence of Early Surroundings"** - Brief humorous observations about women, class, and social pretension (a former cook becoming a prima donna). The page reflects early 20th-century American attitudes toward medicine, gender, and class through lighthearted satire.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. DOROTHY TENNANT IN “THE COLLEGE wibow. Upon the crowded avenue, As on you gayly flit, No one can grab those jewels rare— The diamonds of your wit. And they're the dainty sparklers which Will keep all folks elate, And fill you with the laugh that makes ‘A simian of fate. A REHABILITATED HEALER. IME was when the barber was not a mere manipulator of the brush and razor, but a chirurgeon, and the time has almost come again. History is repeating itself on a higher plane. Men who are in the know regard an up-to-date barber as a friend in need, and look upon his studio as a shelter in a time of storm. When a good fellow has been celebrating a birthday or a high rite of the mystic shrine, it is not to the family physician he tells _his sor- rows, but to George the barber. When it comes to knitting up the raveled sleeve of care and smoothing down a frayed nervous system, the expert barber has the whole college of physicians and sur- geons cuticled from the start. One morning an actor who was “resting” and had sat up most of the Crotty— previous night with a sick friend, bulged through the door of a Broadway barber-shop and, catch- ing the appropriate pose, rumbled at the chief ex- pert, “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written trou- bles of the brain?” “Sure, I can,” said George without batting an eyelid at this Macheth gag. “What you need is to have your face man- icured, your brain mas- saged, and your sub- consciousness sham- pooed. We will begin with a hot towe: on the back of your neck, and when I have pushed in your whiskers I'll put you through the course, and have you wind up by inhaling a lavender cocktail.” * Twenty minutes later that young man was feeling like a man and a brother, and as he paid the fee he listened to the good advice re- garding the liquid part __ Wittie—"'I simply can't practice my piano-lesson, mamma—it niakes me too nervous.” * Well, what are you going to do’this afternoon ?"* Why—er—I've got to put in six hours’ practice with our of his diet with the deference due to an authority. There is no question about it—the barber is more than coming to his own, He is not a mere chirurgeon, but an alienist. A MENTAL ILLUSION. HEN Parker says that he will win Against our leader, Teddy, It shows his treatment should begin By Mary B. G. Eddy. INFLUENCE OF EARLY SUR- ROUNDINGS. WE ARE listening to the new prima donna, “ Her voice has a great range,” we say, “ How did she obtain it?” “It is rumored,” explains our friend, “that she used to be a cook.” 3. Maup—" Any man who would bite a lady Is no gentleman!"* AND IT WASN'T CHOLLY'S FAULT. comicbooks.com