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This page contains satirical humor pieces typical of early-20th-century Judge magazine. **"Health Guyeds"** mocks medical quackery and extreme surgical practices of the era through deliberately absurd advice: sandpaper for complexion, cutting off toes for soreness, removing body parts (tonsils, larynx, nerves) for minor ailments. The satire targets both overzealous doctors performing unnecessary surgeries and patients' gullibility during a period when medical science was advancing but still crude. **"The Wink"** is a lengthy essay treating the eye-wink as profoundly meaningful—used by lovers, criminals, gamblers, and businessmen. It humorously elevates this simple gesture to an essential life skill, suggesting society places bizarre importance on nonverbal communication. **"Things We Never Miss"** lists mundane annoyances (bus fare change, creaky stairs, checking accounts, encountering one's boss). The illustration titled **"Resisting an Officer"** depicts a man physically resisting a police officer, likely satirizing either police overreach or criminal behavior—context unclear without additional caption.

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Health Guyeds T° SECURE a smooth complexion, use sandpaper. For indigestion, drink anything that will divert the mind. Eliminate boils as soon as they appear, using scissors or file. For a sore toe, first cut off the toe. When germs are present, kill them; saving yourself if pos- sible. For chills, hot air; for fever, ice; for sweats, a mangle. All bad eyes should be re- placed with glass. It is sanitary. If the throat is sore, re- move tonsils; if still sore, re- move the larynx; if that is not sufficient, examine thoroughly and operate on the nose, ears, or stomach as preferred. Before an attack of appendi- citis, examine bank account. Gray hair isa boon. It may be dyed any color. For a child prone to convulsions, try the movies. If you are deaf you are unfortunate in not being able to enjoy necessary noise. But, fortunately, you do enjoy the unnecessar, Nothing will break up a stiff joint like machinery. If, however, that should fail, employ either boiling or freezing. For sore feet select only the best carpets. An attack of neuralgia may be shortened by removing so much of the affected nerve. Repeat as often as desired. The rest cure demands beds and couches instead of chairs, this being the most recent discovery essential thereto. In sudden illness be sure to be fragrant of w! facilitate police diagnosi Don’t insist on keeping your health all the time. It’s stingy —Tod Chenevix. This will The Wink LL THE LAWS of physiology and psychology manifest them- selves in the fraction of a moment it takes to wink the eye. A fortune has been saved by one man catching the furtive wink of another at a critical moment, and a girl has lost or made a home for life with it. The wink is all things to all men. It may be honest or dishonest ; leading or misleading; comic or tragic; ardent or insolent, and it can take the place of a suggestive smile or frown in a fraction of the time. The wink is often used as a danger signal. It puts a stop to h less garrulity. In the eloquent eye it may denote kindness. altation, egotism, vanity, pride and delight are all expressed in tha curious closing or snapping of the lids. Of such importance is the wink that it might almost be regarded as a part of a person’s armor with-which to fight life’s battles. When one remembers the value that is attributed to it in psycholog- ical moments it might be claimed that training the lids for this purpose is excusable. One may fail to understand or catch a wink and serious damage ensue. At times it is more potent than a volley of words, and only a few have failed to avail themselves of its potency. The wink is used by lovers; by confederates in crime; the gam- bler cultivates it; the business man depends upon it; the Wall Street man couldn’t do without it; the old man particularly enjoys it is prettiest and most deadly in the mischievous eye of the girl it to take part and the man who has never —G. Vere Tyler. always invi must be a surly fellow indeed! Things We Never Miss “THE right change when somebody insists on paying the bus fare. That creaky step in the stair at two A. M. on lodge night. The 5:15 when dinner is an hour late. Our check book when the bunch goes broke. The boss in the elevator the one day we took the table d'hote “with” for lunch. —H. R. Baukhage. RESISTING AN OFFICER comicbooks.com