The Wasp, 1913 · page 121 of 364
The Wasp — 1913 — page 121: what you’re looking at
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This page from *The Wasp* appears to be **prose fiction rather than a political cartoon**—specifically, a serialized romantic narrative. The text describes a military officer named Stanton finding his beloved "Kitty" (likely his wife or romantic interest) after she's been upset by an encounter with a senior officer's wife. The content is sentimental melodrama typical of early 20th-century magazine fiction: it depicts Stanton's devotion to Kitty through flowery descriptions of her appearance and his emotional response to her distress. There's no visible political satire or social commentary on this particular page. Without additional context about *The Wasp's* satirical purpose or the surrounding narrative, the modern reader should understand this is simply romantic fiction from a satirical magazine—possibly parodying the sentimental conventions of its era, though that irony isn't explicit here.
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a 118 THE WASP Leen ee have to do, madam, is to keep your mouth shut, too.” With that he shook the wife of his senior major, then left her in tears of relief and general nervous agitation, and strode off in search of his Kitty. He found her at last, crouched upon the floor in the corridor of an empty room, with her face hid- den in her hands. Tears glistened between her white and tapering fingers. Her bright and luxur- iant hair, as soft as silk and as rich in tone as the straw of ripe wheat, had escaped from its braids and ribbons and now cascaded across her pliant, quaking shoulders and over her pulsing bosom. She was small, slender, delicately rounded from crown to heel. Stanton knelt beside her and lifted her in both arms until her small head rested upon his right shoulder and her wonderful tresses streamed over his bright tunic. He loved her. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, according to his own standards of beauty. At that-time his infatu- ation for her was stronger than his passion for play Comichooks.com