Judge, 1919-02-01 · page 6 of 32
Judge — February 1, 1919 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation of Judge Magazine Page This page contains four unrelated satirical anecdotes with small illustrations: 1. **Baby's Tongue**: A medical item about a baby born in Mixup, Nevada with an unusually long tongue—a girl. The joke concerns the physician's advice about tongue reduction surgery. 2. **Siamese Shoes**: A brief quip about Siamese twins and shoe-fitting difficulties, playing on the term "Siamese" as fashionable slang. 3. **Clubs and Infidelity**: Satirizes husbands who frequent clubs and card parties to escape home life, with a wife's sarcastic suggestion to "give him something different" by rearranging furniture. 4. **Animal Cruelty Advocate**: Describes a Texan successfully grafting common bottle gourds onto Catawba grapevines, and praises an animal welfare activist for his merciful treatment of neglected creatures in markets. The large illustration depicts "The First American Medicine Man"—likely a historical or anthropological reference.
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ed BABY w born recen Mixup, Nev., with a tongue ten inches long. It was, of course, a girl. The sician who ampu- tated the excess is said to advise the operation in not only such cases, but even in female tongues of nor- mal length HE Siamese never fit shoes to the feet, but fit the feet to th c hoes. Only two sizes are r arge, small and medium. In case the foot does not fit at once, it is frozen hard and then sandpapered down to the proper s without ain CLuss, saloons, card parties nd so on, entice men away from their homes only because they desire a chan Or, so at least maintains a Memphis lady, who has solved the problem of keeping her husband at home o’ nights. “Give him something different every day,” she says, “‘no matter what it may be. Sometimes I re-hang all the pictures in the house upside-down, just so something will appear new. Some- times I appear at dinner in men’s clothes, and some- times my cook dines with him while I prepare the dinner myself. Once when we had a particularly pretty parlor maid whom I taught to shave and manicure him, he stayed at home voluntarily for a whole week.” HORTICULTURIST in Spain is said to have succeeded in fting the common bottle gourd gemaria vulgaris) onto a Catawba grapevine. was surprised, in late September, upon picking ourds to find that they were filled with sweet ZEALOUS member of the ciety for the Prevention of Cruclty to Animals in Gasolia, ‘Texas, has been remarkably suc- cessful in soothing the dying anguish of many hitherto neglected dumb creatures. Frequenting the markets and restaurantkitchens, he has shown praiseworthy solicitude for the last hours of shell fish. The gratitude of the unfortunate little molluscs is said to be touching in the extreme, grateful oysters often rewarding their friend, before ex- piring, with pearls that had been long concealed about their persons. Other food animals come in for the gentleman’s care and sympathy, and it is not un- usual to find him in the market with two or three ap- preciative lobsters clinging to his sleeve as if they hated to part with one who had so mercifully put an { to the sufferings of their friends and relati Tne First American Mepicine Man Le comicbooks.com