Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #20 — page 57: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a humor advice column featuring responses to reader letters. The satire targets rural social conventions and courtship customs of the era. **Key jokes:** - **Belle's** rejected story wins a "diamond studded stomach pump" — mocking overly sentimental rural submissions - **Sweet Marie's** advice about bridegroom not seeing the bride before the wedding, then cynically suggesting surveillance of the groom, satirizes rural superstitions and marital distrust - **Dolly** addresses simultaneous wedding/christening invitations — poking fun at hastily arranged rural marriages - **Will E. Crowder** references a woman "walking home after an automobile ride," implying sexual impropriety — typical 1920s scandal insinuation - **Grace's** closing joke about babies making "bankroll smaller" and "clothes shabbier" mocks the financial hardships of large rural families The column uses folksy humor to gently mock rural American life and social anxieties.