Judge, 1925-10-10 · page 8 of 37
Judge — October 10, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains two separate satirical pieces: **Top Cartoon**: A man kicks through a window, telling a police officer to jail him for two weeks because his wife is doing fall house-cleaning. The satire mocks the disruptive chaos of spring cleaning (here, fall cleaning), suggesting jail is preferable to enduring it at home. **Bottom Cartoon**: A man runs from the Smith Manufacturing Co. building with a cane. The caption jokes that this explains "why there's so many Smiths in this town"—implying men are fleeing the factory in droves, suggesting poor working conditions or low pay that drives away employees. **The Dentist's Dictionary**: A humorous glossary mocking dentists' behavior and costs. Entries like "Dentine" (a pun suggesting dentists "dine" on patients' wallets) and "Nerve" (calling out their aggressive billing) criticize dentists' greed, inflated talk ("Gas"), and the financial burden of dental work on ordinary people. The page uses working-class and ethnic humor typical of the era.
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fall house-cleaning! Jones—Get me a couple of weeks in jail for this, will you, Officer? My wife is doing the “H’m—that probably explains why there’s so many Smiths in this town.” through de seed catalog. 6 The Dentist’s Dictionary HAIR—What most of us think our dentist should be sentenced to. Gas—The line of chatter your dentist hands out. Pull—What the society woman has who breezes into the chair ahead of you after you have been waiting two hours. Root—Something I would never do for my dentist. Jaws—What the wife does when you keep putting off that semi- annual visit to the dentist’s to have the teeth cleaned. Dentine—What the dentist does to your salary: for example—‘He puts a dentine your pocketbook.” Nerve—Dominant characteristic of most dentists about the first of the month. George Bancroft Duren PIS Rastus—How yuh git dat lame back? Sambo—Watchin’ mah wife look comicbooks.com