Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1922 · page 62 of 67
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* (a 1920s-era men's humor magazine) collects several short jokes targeting domestic life and gender relations: **Main joke**: A Mason's wife demands he reveal initiation secrets. He fabricates a story about a dancing girl in veils to appease her. His punchline plays on "Odd Fellow" (a fraternal order) as a synonym for someone who *wouldn't* look—implying a real man naturally would, defying his wife's jealous disapproval. **Recurring theme**: Women as nagging, jealous, or illogical (they'll repeat bad stories; they're mysteriously attractive to men for unclear reasons; they're "brazen hussies"). **Context**: The satire targets both Masonic secrecy (which wives supposedly couldn't penetrate) and traditional marriage dynamics where husbands resented female authority. The humor assumes male readers identify with marital conflict and appreciate mockery of female jealousy and nosiness. The magazine catered to men's fraternal organizations, making in-jokes about their secretive rituals and exclusivity central to the comedy.
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60 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang For Masons and Odd Fellows Only A certain husband had just taken his first degree in Masonry and arrived home to find his wife waiting for his return. As soon as he had removed his hat and coat she asked him what the degree was like. He told her that he could not tell her, ar! she insisted that he would have to tell. S.e became so insistent that he decided he would have to tell her something to keep her quiet, so he said to her: “Well, the first thing that I saw was a pretty girl, clad in filmy veils, who danced for us.” “I certainly hope that you didn’t look at that brazen hussy,” she replied. “Sure, I did,” he answered, “If I hadn’t looked I would have been an Odd Fellow.” * * * Tell a girl a good story and she’ll laugh at it; tell her a bad one and she’ll repeat it. * * * Gag From C`on Of course men admire a circums: nan, but they never invite her out to supper. * * * Where 'Ere I Go She—“What is the seat of the emotions, Jack?” Jack—“How about the divan?” * * * When you see a woman surrounded by men and you cannot see what there is attractive about her it may be simply because you cannot see what there is attractive about her.