Judge, 1927-03-05 · page 5 of 34
Judge — March 5, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page This page contains several unrelated humorous pieces typical of Judge magazine's format: **"How to Get a Bat Out of a Belfry"** is a satirical how-to list by W.W. Scott. It plays on the common phrase "bats in the belfry" (meaning someone is crazy). The absurdist suggestions—installing a telephone, promoting beauty contests, becoming a bathing beauty—mock both the phrase and impractical "advice" columns popular in the era. **"The Apprehensive Rodents and the Sagacious Feline"** is a whimsical fable where mice convince a cat to take them traveling by appealing to her thoughtfulness. It's lighthearted animal anthropomorphism, likely aimed at children. **"Salesman (after the battle)"** is a brief joke about a vacuum cleaner salesman approaching someone after what appears to be destruction or chaos—dark humor about persistent salesmanship. The cartoons appear primarily humorous rather than politically satirical.
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JUDGE How to Get a Bat Out of a | Belfry Install telephone in belfry. | Phone will ring all day. Bat will | answer. Tell callers they have { wrong number. Get no sleep. Be | removed in strait jacket. | i Promote beauty contest for bats. Bat will enter. Win prize. Be named Miss Belfry. Leave for California, Become bathing bat. Tell bat it is called blind mouse in French. Bat will resent name. | Fly out in rage. Go to college. | Study German. | Present natural history book to | bat. Bat will look self up. Find self not bird, but insectivorous mammal. Be disillusioned. Die of broken heart. | Taunt bat with being fly-by- | night. Bat will be ashamed. Will ] mend ways. Fly in day time. Get lost. —wW. W. Scorr Explained Biggs—Wonder why Abie’s Trish Rose is so popular? Wiggs—Must be its sects ap- peal. Pad No matter how much this coun- try’s population increases there’s always rum for one more. RLS Prosrector—Gosh! I’ve never been so dern lonesome in me life! When better pedestrians are | made Buicks will make them . | ] jump. The Apprehensive Rodents | | and the Sagacious Feline { £ ‘ Three apprehensive mice once | tried To get the cat to take a trip. “The world,” said they, “is large and wide— With much to please Your | Felineship !” | | | “Such thoughtfulness is very | nice,” | Replied the cat and hummed a | song, 7 “And since you are such thought- ] ful mice I’m going to take you all along.” She packed a catnip ball to munch, She took her pipe and zither, Then ate the jolly mice for lunch— Saresman (after the battle)—Can I interest you in a And that’s how they went with | | vacuum cleaner? ver! —A.L. L. | comicbooks.com