Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #45 — page 50: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three separate satirical pieces from an early 20th-century humor magazine: 1. **"Shoot Him in the Coat"** - A suggestive joke about a couple on a sofa playing "Tailor Shop," a euphemistic game involving removing clothes. 2. **"The Way of It"** - A brief poem about romantic transience—a kiss, goodbye, then moving on to "another girl." 3. **"An Open Letter to Mr. Kipling"** - Social commentary critiquing Rudyard Kipling's claims about understanding women. The author argues Kipling couldn't possibly have learned about women from a single source, and that using the same romantic approach on multiple women is unethical—"that's a thing which is simply not done." 4. A final paragraph satirizes farmers' credit policies designed to increase debt rather than relieve it. The humor targets sexual double standards, masculine presumption, and economic exploitation of rural Americans.