Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 21: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes the Detroit Golf Club's ban on "cheek dancing," a then-current dance craze where partners placed their cheeks together while dancing. The club's entertainment committee issued a formal notice threatening suspension for repeat offenders, calling the practice too intimate and improper for respectable society. The satire mocks the prudishness of Detroit's elite ("dignified sons and daughters of Terpsichore") who found this close contact scandalous. The humor lies in the overwrought formal response to a minor dancing style—the club treating it as serious misconduct warranting board intervention. The page concludes with witty observations about courtship customs contrasting "old-time lovers" with modern behavior.