Judge, 1915-04-24 · page 16 of 24
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This page contains a sports humor piece titled "Yarns of the Ballplayers" by Ed A. Goewey, featuring Jimmy "Pepper" Austin of the St. Louis Browns baseball team. The main story is Austin recounting a tale about a player named "Bugs" Raymond visiting a physician. The joke's satire targets pseudo-intellectual jargon masquerading as expertise. A doctor uses elaborate medical terminology—"alimentary canal," "medulla oblongata," "neurasthenic nerve," "cerebellum"—to describe what is simply a massage. Raymond initially appears impressed by the scientific language, but once outside, admits he hadn't realized the doctor was "just massaging that boy," deflating the pretense of sophisticated medical knowledge. The surrounding advertisements (pianos, ink pencils, magic tricks, patent services) are typical Judge magazine content. A secondary joke references modern women's fashion scandalously—implying they wear little or nothing. This reflects early 20th-century American humor mocking both medical charlatanism and the mystification of simple practices through jargon.
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Yarns of the Ballplayers By ED A. GOEWEY PIANOS—PLAYER PIANOS factory Home 00 BY MY PLAN of selling direct from factory to home, [can save you | from $110 to $200 on my celebrated Evans Artist Model Two to Four Years to Pay October 27, 1829 A fine day for the hunt. We started at daybreak and gath. ered at noon for dinner. We took with us some good Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 yean* ne tor ther reason Write today, 30 Days Free Trial We allow all freight charges, ls Jimmy “Pepper” Austin, St. Louis Browns Model Pia o y ‘A Piedmont Southern Red Cedar OUR LATEST NOVELTY. Bath honse in wood veneer with swinging door and brass fastener; the door open to introduce our pictures for The Den, nerst’* Catalog alone 10¢. accepted. CELEBRITY ART CO., BS 37 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Cedar Free Trial Sizes— 434 and 53¢ ins. Extra Size—8 inches (black only) $1.25. FREE—tiberal supply of ink with retail orders. Agents Wanted. Big Profits, rack “Vulcan” Ink Pencils ‘The ONLY tak’ pencite at moderate tect, non-leakahle Brienne Orter $ tosay ‘J. J. ULLRICH & CO., 27 Thames St., New York We will send you two card tricks, very perplexing to onlookers, yet anyone can do them. Also twa 100 different Magic Tricks. SHOP, 20 North 13th Street, THE MAGIC show over Phila., Pa, LIAL WANTED—AN IDEA! simple thing to WHO CAN THINK OF SOME nt? Protect your ideas, they may bring for “Needed Inventions” and “How to and Your Money.” Randoiph & Co., [om Patent Attorneys. Dept. 129, Washington, D. ééTIMMY”’ AUSTIN, sometimes familiarly referred to as ‘*Pepper’’ Austin, who this year will kick up the dust for the St. Louis Browns, is a good story-teller, and many damp evenings around the training camps have been made brighter by his yarns. Here is one which he sprung dur- ing this year’s workout season in the South, and concerns the late lamented ‘‘Bugs"’ Raymond. One day, so goes the tale, ‘‘Jimmy’’ and Raymond went to the office of a physician well known in the sporting world, to whom had been sent a player, a mutual friend of the ball tossers, who had been injured in the day's game. When they entered the sanctum of the medical man, they found him busily at work rubbing the indisposed player. ‘‘ Bugs’’ manifested great interest in what was going on and asked many questions. Finally the doctor paused and said, “You see, I take the alimentary canal thusly in my right hand, while with the left Iturn the medulla oblongata, describing a complete arc with the esophagus as a ful- crum, This stimulates the neurasthenic nerve and relieves the pressure upon the bones of the cerebellum. The only func- tion of the muscles is contraction, conse- quently this treatment increases the dura- bility of the cranium. Do I make myself clear?"’ “Sure. I get you, doc,’’ said Raymond. Then he and ‘‘Jimmy"’ left the office; but once in the street, ‘‘Bugs’’ paused and appeared to be in deep thought. Finally he blurted out, “My, but science is a grand thing! If it wasn't for science, I'd have thought that the doc was just massaging that boy.’’ Modern Modes Marcella—Her husband says she spends money for unnecessary clothes. Waverly—I didn’t think the ladies were wearing any at present. A Question Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Or even ossified, That when a million he has won Will then be satisfied? Todayas of yore Old Overholt is still chosen as the one bever- age to seasonagood day’s sport. Its uniform purity and flavor make it the choice of all crit- ical men, Aged in the wood, bottled in bond. A. OVERHOLT & CO, Pittsburgh, Pa, a o . Miile Rock “The World’s Best Table Water’ Is superior on all occasions. From the famous White Rock Mineral Springs, Wau! a, Wis. Office, 100 Broadway, N.Y. Pears’ “There’s no place like home,” and no soap like Pears’. I Pears’ Soap is found in millions of homes the world over. Sold everywhere,