Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — Woman Laughs Her Jaw Out of Joint [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Woman Laughs Her Jaw Out of Joint

YORK. —Tee-hee-hee! Hawhaw! Cra-a-a-ack!!! Mrs. Cecilia Goldberg’s birthday party was an enjoyable occasion up to this point, or, to be exact, until she dislocated her jaw laughing at her mistake in kissing the wrong man. The occasion was the eighteenth anniversary of Mrs. Goldberg’s arrival In Harlem, where she has since become duly popular in her set. She is a pretty young woman, and her parents invited all their friends and relatives to come around and celebrate. They came by the dozens, and it was one of those “a-gorgeous-time was-had-by-all” affairs. The tables groaned with good things to eat, and there was a decorous but all sufficient dampness out in the vicinity of the ice box. Along about midnight, when the young folks began thinking of going home, some on suggested that “blind man’s buff” was a good game to taper oft with. The music was stopped and

Mrs. Goldberg was chosen as the first to be the blind one. She was blindfolded and led into the parlor. She was entitled to kiss any man she could catch, and she supposed that Jim, her husband, tyould be on the Job and see that he was caught. But a young man named Harry was caught by Mrs. Goldberg and was kissed. Jim was just a second too late. Then they pulled the blindfold off and Mrs. Goldberg saw whom she had kissed. The crowd combined in a roar of glee and Mrs. Goldberg graciously joined in the laughter. But she overexerted herself. In the midst of an unusually loud "Ha-ha!” she grabbed her Jaws and began to dance about the room. She gasped and groaned, and Policeman Mott, rushing upstairs, found the company in confusion and hysteria. Mrs. Goldberg seemed unable to close her mouth, and nobody could hold her long enough to close it for her. A policeman gaVe all the first aid he could muster without result, so he called a doctor from the Harlem hospital. The doctor made a hasty examination and diagnosed the trouble as a dislocated Jaw. He finally succeeded in getting it back in place, and advised the patient not to laugh again for a day or so. She won't for a week at least.