Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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This page contains three humorous poems with no accompanying cartoons or caricatures. The content satirizes 1920s social attitudes toward women and femininity. "God's Richest Blessing" mocks conservative morality by requesting women return to restrictive dress codes and behavior—tight skirts, modest exposure, old-fashioned dances—while ironically framing this as a "blessing." "What Every Girl Thinks" presents a cynical view of female nature, suggesting women contain contradictory traits (angel and devil) that become irresistible when combined in a man. "If" concludes by sarcastically suggesting that women who adopted modern practices—bobbed hair, makeup, shorter dresses, confident speech—would become unpopular, when the opposite was clearly true in the Jazz Age. The satire targets conservative attitudes resisting 1920s women's liberation and changing social norms.