Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, May 1922 · page 31 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #33 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page collects humor and inspirational content typical of this satirical magazine. The main joke, "Can You Blame Her?," mocks hasty marriages and incompatibility: a bride seeks divorce after two weeks solely because her husband snores—a trivial complaint that the judge ironically grants anyway, suggesting even minor annoyances justify ending marriages. The satire targets both the frivolousness of young newlyweds and lenient divorce laws. The remaining sections shift tone, offering an inspirational prayer by Phillips Brooks, a philosophical poem titled "I Am" about human existence, and a final joke where a father deflects his child's question about the French ballet term "pas de deux" with a dismissive non-answer—likely suggesting the father either doesn't know or finds the topic inappropriate for children.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 29 Can You Blame Her? Judge—And what are your grounds for di- vorce? Young Bride—Harry snores. Judge—How long have you been married? Y. B.—Two weeks. Judge—Granted, he shouldn't snore. —Colgate Banter. * * * Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work will be no miracle, But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, At the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God. —Phillips Brooks. * * * An Old Wise Crack Riches, like the bull, do no good till they are spread. * * * I Am I am. How little more I know; Whence came I? Whither do I go? I centred self which feels and is! A cry between two silences— A shaft from Natures quiver cast Into the future from the past; Between the cradle and the shroud A meteor flight from cloud to cloud. * * * “Pa, what is the meaning of pas de deux?” Father of five—“Never mind, run away and play like a good boy.”