Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two distinct pieces. "Plump Polly Puckers" is an alliterative tongue-twister story by Edgar M. Schoenberg about a character named Polly and her romantic interest Paul. It appears to be humorous light verse exploiting the "P" sound throughout—a popular literary game in early 20th-century magazines. "The Naked Truth" below is a brief social commentary from the Los Angeles Times, sardonically suggesting that if Los Angeles women adopt bare-legged fashion in public, the term "legs" would be more accurate than the euphemistic "limbs"—a joke about Victorian-era prudishness versus emerging flapper-era fashion trends of the 1920s.