Judge, 1910-12-31 · page 5 of 27
Judge — December 31, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts the "20th Century Guardian" (labeled on a drum) with five figures representing New Year's resolutions, marching forward with weapons. The caption warns these resolutions "will prove sharp" — satirizing how people's good intentions typically fail. The main article by Charles Irvin Jenkins criticizes doctors who exploit patients. It mocks physicians seeking payment for dubious services, comparing crooked doctors to farmers selling bad crops. The accompanying photograph, titled "Circumstances Alter Cases," shows figures in what appears to be a tenement or poor neighborhood, with the caption sarcastically praising the "fine, crisp, healthy, bracing air" — likely criticizing doctors' indifference to poor patients' actual living conditions and health hazards.
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NOTCH Tue PERZE22HUN with Moov rx Sau. Tt SHARP] OME dig for gold, and some seek S for precious stones, but it is a blind surgeon that cannot find a pot of yellow metal at the foot vf the vermiform appendix. A specialist for the eye, and another for each corner of the anatomy, and big Dopes for Doctors. By CHARLES IRVIN JUNKI. checks for all, but the people sigh in vain for the good old ‘family physician.” A bad egg may bring forth a chicken, and a bag of fertilizer will hurry up the crop, but a crooked doctor is a proposi- tion that calls for antiseptics. The sick man longeth for a doctor, and CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. haileth his coming with joy, but the con” valescent is haunted by shadows of the bill to come, and crieth ‘‘Enough!’’ i} The Chinaman crieth ‘‘No cashee, no laundry, ’’ and the banker requireth heavy collateral, but the physician is expected to go right on with his work, and he does. Stout, well-fed party in furs—'* Ab, this is a fine, crisp, healthy, bracing air !"" comicbooks.com