Judge, 1915-03-27 · page 7 of 24
Judge — March 27, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon satirizes a doctor's romantic miscalculation. The caption reveals he greeted a woman with her dog, saying "Taking the pup out for a little airing?" — but the dog wasn't hers at all. She was walking someone else's pet, making the doctor's familiar assumption both wrong and inappropriate enough to cost him her as a patient. The humor lies in his embarrassing gaffe from misreading the social situation. The accompanying text snippets offer other comic vignettes: one about a wife's secret hat purchase (satirizing domestic deception), another mocking a suitor who conflates gift-giving with genuine affection, and a classical art joke about Venus de Milo's exposed state versus modern propriety. The "Nibbleless Day" dialogue jokes about fishermen feeling pressure if fish markets depended on their catch.
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HOW HE LOST A PATIENT “Good morning, Mrs. Fitz Boodle. Taking the pup out for a little airing?” have such beautiful taste, I know you will just love me in it. Thank you, dear, a thousand times! Yes, next month I shall certainly try hard to keep within my allow- ance. And now, dear heart, I think I shall run upstairs a little earlier than usual. You will come when you have finished your blessed paper, won’t you?’’ The big man, with quite a tender little smile playing on his lips, picked up the forsaken paper from the floor and adjusted his glasses anew. The wise little lady with the burnished hair, after closing the door softly behind her, flew on the wings of the Roe Soy didn’t even know it was there. wind to a pretty upstairs bedroom, dived breathlessly under a high-canopied bed and pulled out a much beflowered box, from the tissue-paper cavern of which she extracted a hat, at which she gazed with rapturous admiration. It was, without doubt, a very love of a hat. It was all of that lovely shade they call primrose pink, and it had a perfect dream of a rose on one side. Proof Will—So you think she loves you? Ned—Of course! She accepts everything I give her! (You see, it wasn't her dog at all. In fact she Venus de Milo 6¢/TPHIS decollete is bold, I know (But not entirely charmless) ; It’s not as far as I might go With safety,’’ said Miss Carmliss. “De Milo wears hers twice as low— And she’s considered ’armless."" On a Nibbleless Day First fisherman (about four p. m.)—Say! Second fisherman—Huh? First fisherman — Wouldn't it make us nervous to feel that the fish markets of the country were depending on 11s? comicbooks.com