Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains humorous domestic advice columns rather than cartoons. The satire targets marriage troubles and incompatible spouses through absurdist scenarios: 1. **The Highland divorce case**: A woman whose husband refuses to shave his calves—presented as legitimate grounds for divorce in Chicago courts. 2. **The bath-singing husband**: A man who sings unbearable WWI-era songs ("Mademoiselle from Armentieres") while bathing near his wife's bedroom—another divorce justification. 3. **"The Pedigreed Persian Cat"**: A reprinted story about infidelity (a cat claiming a traveling man fathered her kittens). The page invites readers to submit poems defending the "traveling man" against such accusations. The humor targets both marital discord and post-WWI social anxieties about masculinity and fidelity.