Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three brief humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons: 1. **"Hot Tamales"**: A joke about a woman on a train who removes her stockings and turns them inside-out while two men watch. The punchline reveals she was simply adjusting her "hose" (stockings), not engaged in seduction. 2. **"An Eye Opener"**: A story about a seventeen-year-old girl who receives a gold watch from a boy. When asked who gave it to her, she falsely claims her mother did to conceal the gift's true romantic origin. The joke mocks her naive attempt at deception. Both stories rely on double meanings and mild innuendo typical of 1920s-era men's magazine humor, targeting readers' assumptions about feminine behavior and morality.