Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #19 — page 45: what you’re looking at

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This page contains two satirical poems without accompanying illustrations. The first poem mocks schoolteachers' hypocrisy—they preach morality while their own sons apparently engage in petty crime or misconduct, requiring legal intervention. The second poem, "When Wifie's Away," satirizes male infidelity and moral laxity. It argues that a man's temptation to misbehave when his wife is absent represents the greatest moral danger, more seductive than other vices. The poem includes a narrative example about "young man named Whiteside" who abandons propriety when unsupervised, hearing "cooties" (lice) crawling and making hasty escapes. The satire critiques masculine weakness and hypocrisy regarding marital fidelity and social respectability.