Judge, 1905-02-18 · page 7 of 16
Judge — February 18, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Sonnet in Winter"**: A romantic poem yearning for warm climates, accompanied by winter scene illustrations—straightforward seasonal nostalgia humor. **"Dietetic Imprudence"**: A woman's nightmare blamed on eating "health-food"—satirizing the contemporary fad of health-food trends, suggesting they cause digestive distress. **"His Reasons"**: A dentist explains his financial struggles: seven children to support, plus his business hasn't grown. The punchline—he has "not enough teeth to fill"—is dark humor playing on the profession's dependence on patients with dental problems. Fewer cavities means fewer patients. **Pedigree joke**: A working-class character misunderstands "pedigree" (ancestry) as "stomach," suggesting the dog's long lineage is really just a long digestive tract. This mocks both class differences in vocabulary and dog breeding pretensions. **"A Hard Blow"**: A woman admits a Vassar graduate interested her only while she was *studying* something—implying shallow romantic interest disconnected from her actual person.
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