Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #24 — page 5: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Whiz Bang* contains no visible cartoon. It's the opening of an editorial essay titled "Drippings From the Faucet" that contrasts urban and rural girls. The piece uses florid, moralizing language typical of early 20th-century social criticism. It compares the modern city to a "grim monster" consuming innocent women, arguing that city girls face constant sexual temptation and unwanted male attention ("Men eye her with glances of suggestion and invitation"), while country girls enjoy wholesome simplicity. The satire's target appears to be urban vice and moral corruption—concerns common in 1920s-era commentary about modernization. The piece reflects period anxieties about changing gender roles and sexuality in cities.