Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
American wit and humor -- Periodicals
“Don’t let those men kid you. I have put up all the capital. My father is
a rich man in South America. When it comes down to it, these fellows work
for me and, though I don’t interfere much, naturally I would hate to see
a girl that looks like you get left—”
The madam talks once more.
“I cannot go to dinner with you. I have been asked by the four other
men. I might take a chance with the leading man because he’s half way
young. Though everyone says he doesn’t count, if I had to eat dinner with
someone I guess I’d pick out the youngest and let you ‘burned outs’ try
your luck somewhere else. But I’m eating by myself tomorrow night.”
Two or three camera men and some publicity agents possibly invited the
lady out to dine, but the ones she seemed to remember began with the
leading man and ended with the fellow who said he owned the bankroll that
kept the company on the map.
* * * * *
Couldn’t Understand
Bellboy—“Good mawnin’ Rastus. I’se done lost me job at the Langren Hotel
and I can’t understan’ how come.”
Rastus—“What’s you don, niggah, stole sumpin’?”
Bellboy—“All I done was to go in the main dinin’ room and page a girl
named Carrie Age.”
_Cherubim of Hell_
_Reverend Morrill, the Whiz Bang’s fire-eating gospelite
writer, is now touring the West Indies for this magazine.
Remember the Martinique articles written after his recent tour
to that sinful island for the Whiz Bang? His present trip
presages some more hot sermons. In the April issue, Reverend
Morrill’s story of Parisian life, “Midnight Madness,” will
appear in the Whiz Bang. Later, during the summer months, he
will deliver to our readers a carload of dynamite. Watch for
his explosion!_
BY REV. “GOLIGHTLY” MORRILL.
Pastor of the People’s Church, Minneapolis, Minn.
Helen never raised more hell in Troy than the island of St. Lucia did in
the West Indies. It is some 250 square miles, is volcanic, and has been
in constant war-like upheaval.
Our ship, the “Caraquet” has arrived here, where for 150 years the
French and English have cut each others throats. From 1605, when English
settlers landed in the “Oliph Blossome” from Barbadoes and were massacred
in less than two months—others were smoked out by natives burning red
pepper—to 1814, when the isle was finally ceded to Great Britain, St.
Lucia has been seeded with hate and borne a harvest of death. In three
years, from 1793 to 1796, England lost 80,000 soldiers, including
40,000 dead. This topped the loss of Wellington’s army from all causes
during the Peninsular war. Add to this yellow fever, malaria, the deadly
fer-de-lance snake, hurricanes, earthquakes, bush-bandits and runaway
slaves the revolution set free (who kidnapped, ravished, maimed, burned
and robbed) and St. Lucia’s cup of gall and gore is running over—as are
the wasps, centipedes, tarantulas, mosquitoes and scorpions over the
people.
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