Judge, 1912-09-21 · page 8 of 24
Judge — September 21, 1912 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** "Now We Can Talk Sense!" depicts a man and woman fishing together while a child plays nearby. The joke plays on the phrase "talk sense"—suggesting that fishing (a traditionally male leisure activity) finally allows the couple to communicate meaningfully. **"Pigmentary Precedence" Essay:** This is a racist pseudo-scientific satire attempting to justify white supremacy through color theory. It argues that white, being a combination of all colors, represents the "highest type" of mankind, while Black represents the "absence of color" and thus the lowest. The piece sardonically presents this hierarchy as logical fact. By modern standards, it's deeply offensive pseudoscience that exposes the absurd rationales used to legitimize racial prejudice. **"Can You Blame Him?"** plays on census/sensus wordplay—a father disbelieves his own "census" (count) upon hearing of triplets. **"Renunciation"** features two humorous letters between Jim and Madge about his upcoming marriage, with forget-me-knot puns.
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AN Gi bao | EA) OV SY, we Ai Pigmentary Precedence. Corr conquers the world. What has color to do with conquest? Ob- serve for answer, if you please, the white man. Since the beginning he has conquered the world and, as a corollary thereto, all other men. Has he any peculiar pigment of precedence in his blood? Let us see. White is a com- bination of all the colors, and the white man is, therefore, the chromatic con- centration of animate creation. Ashe has proved himself to be the highest type of created beings and is white, it follows that he must be prismatic per- fection. Furthermore, the lowest type of man is black, which means the ab- sence of all color. He is called ‘‘col- ored’’ only by courtesy. Next above him is the red man, then the brown man, and, still higher, the yellow, each rising a grade higher from the basic black to the prismatic perfection, or white. Among white men the green man is rated lowest, and what the white man does to his green brother makes that unfortunate appear extremely blue, though not permanently so, be- cause he is not permanently green unless he is born chromatically im- possible. However, thus do we see that the presence and the absence of all colors constitute the extremes of mankind, and thus is definitely settled the vexed question of the superiority and the supremacy of the white man. —W. J. Lamprn Hre—"‘ NOW WE CAN TALK SENSE!" Can You Blame Him? Renunciation. “It's triplets!’’ announced the nurse. HIS LETTER. ‘Really!’ said the astonished father. ‘‘Dear Madge—Of course you've no- “I can searcely believe my own census!"’ ticed by the papers That I’ve eschewed the joys of sin- gle life; Renouncing all my former merry ca- pers, : I shortly take unto myself a wife. My stage-door days, I feel, have found an ending— Most circumspect, from now, must be my lot; But, as you see, for old sake’s sake I’m sending An au revoir—and this forget-me- not.’” HER LETTER. “Dear Jim—Accept a friend's congrat- ulations. I hope your luck will be the bestest yet, Although I fear you'll miss your old flirtations, Unless you've changed a lot since last we met. Be good to her—and, ere this letter cloges, One friendly word—it's quite the best I’ve got— Your marriage, Jim, will not be strewn with roses, Unless the tie’s a real forget-me- knot."’ = Stanley Quien The melancholy days have come, the INDEFINITE SATISFACTION saddest of the year, when our club “ Well, ma, how do you like New York 2" . no longer hopes to bring the pennant “*T think it will be just splendid when it 's finished."’ here. comicbooks.com