Life, 1926-03-18 · page 14 of 44
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This page is a humorous essay on dental problems and dentistry, using cartoon vignettes to mock various tooth-related issues and dental practices. The satire targets: 1. **Bad teeth causes**: The cartoons joke that teeth problems lead to various ailments (moles, stomach aches, eye problems) 2. **Dental solutions**: It mocks contemporary dental treatments like "putting teeth on ice" and false teeth options 3. **Dentists' theories**: The text sarcastically hopes doctors "duck the dental theories" and questions their credibility regarding tooth-related health claims 4. **False teeth commerce**: It satirizes the market for store-bought dentures marketed as cosmetic solutions The overall point: dentistry in this era mixed legitimate concerns with dubious pseudo-scientific claims, and the page ridicules both overzealous dental theorizing and commercial tooth-selling schemes targeting the self-conscious public.
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bad Teeth can give poc- | rootw = | VIOLET Teeth (the ups stage name for Tush- es) are of fif- ty-seven kinds and they well repay deep stu- y by our so- birer, keener minds. _ The ovtstan- ding facts are sev- ‘ral, but they should- n't stand too far; that is, not _ too far outstan- | dings they're called Buck- eeth if they are. } ONE way oF K GNASHING | THE Rare is he who sports the two- and-thirty chew- ers known to man, Molar, Go- pher, Eye and Tum- my in his fa- cial map, Or pan. ANOTHER | GNASH eae JJ who sports a ful- ly furnished den- tal dining set unadorned with gold or gut- Dentists say us leprosy or ip or fits and they know from what else ails vs, in which tooth the trouble sits. If you've moles, they pull a Mo- lar; stomach ache, a Stomach Tush. Vision bad ?— the Eye Teeth van- ish. Soon, till you can't chew mush. > Sal mt IMETHOD OF PUTTING THE TEETH ON ICE Half a year of toothless te- dium, waiting till the gooms get hard; then at last you're chewing some- thing harder than warmed-over lard. ) aS | MAIDEN LADY. CO-OPERATOR OF A LONE }SET OF FALSE TEETH. ON THE RETURN lof MER SISTER WITH THE TEETH FROM Le ___A_SWEiL PARTY = I sure hope the M.D. doc- tors duck the den- tal theories — dock the ears for erysip~ elas? What pos- sibilities!! LAUCHING CAS TECHNICALLY CORRECT EXPRESSION IN APPLYING VACUUM TREATMENT | TO TEETH | Like that by- gone law for chil- dren, dealing with the spoken word, Teeth should show, _ in modera- tion, but they nev- er should be heard. A SURENOUGH 0G TOOTH _} One cantell Store Teeth from Home- Grown, not by sound, bute when they ache. (One can tell some children noth- | ing, for the noise | the darrrrrrlings make.) p MH MECHANICAL Mee ESOT FOR USE IN MAJOR DENTISTRY Store Teeth come in these two clas- ses: Put-and-Take and Clinch-For-Keeps. P-Ts, spend the night in glas- ses, laving while the owner sleeps. la | (mae OF A PAINLESS | | peng () Like a verb | or invita- tion, Teeth are sub- ject to decline — Pearl, Old Iv- ory, Moss Ag- ate, gathering trov- ty, concrete, or a dental debt. ble down the line. “ if comicbooks.¢om )