Judge, 1925-07-04 · page 27 of 36
Judge — July 4, 1925 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two unrelated items: **Left side:** A cartoon and humorous essay titled "Choose Your Career Now!" The cartoon shows a child asking his mother why a worm wants to turn when "it's the same on both sides"—a play on the phrase "the worm turns" (meaning the oppressed finally rebel). The essay satirizes the romanticization of professional careers, particularly medicine. It mocks how mothers dream their sons become doctors, and uses absurdist humor about determining if a child should be a doctor by observing whether he dismembers insects, pulls wings off flies, or can properly set a baby's injured finger. The satire targets both pretentious professionalism and questionable child-rearing practices of the era. **Right side:** An advertisement for "Mollé" shaving cream, offering a free trial tube. This is straightforward product marketing with no satirical content. The page demonstrates Judge's typical mix of social commentary and commercial advertising.
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WN) Suet. (thoughtfully)—I say, mummy, why does a worm want to turn, it's the same on both sides? Choose Your Career Now! Jet think of being a professional man (e.g. doctor) with your own hours and under orders to nobody. Every mother dreams that her son will adopt some profession, right up to the moment when he enters the bond business. A professional man carries a little black bag or brief case, with lots of papers, has a way of saying “Good morning, and such a nice morning!” and wears a Van Dyck beard. Being a doctor is a worthwhile profession although in the broad sense nowadays almost any line can be called a profession if you love your work. “Doctor” is getting to be so general. (Sec “Football Coaches.”’) Directions for Doctors The little doctor must always be bandaging up stray dogs and cats, —Winter’s Piz and show a great interest in all forms of suffering. Now and then he must try to take one of his playmates apart, just to see how he is made. Watch him with interest when he pulls the wings off a fly; if he looks at it through a magnifying glass he will probably become a doctor, but if he tries to put it together again, you had better refer back to mechan- ical engineering. There are different kinds of doc- tors, and if the little boy lacks the money to go to school he can always take up chiropractice. If you are in doubt about which branch of medi- cine he should adopt, put him in a room with a baby which is howling because it has cut its finger; you can tell whether he will be a surgeon or a homeopath by noting whether he bandages it or feeds it choke-cherries. Corey Ford or Shaving without Brush orLather