The Wasp — 1914 — page 128: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page appears to be narrative fiction rather than political satire or cartoon content. It's Chapter VII of what seems to be a serialized story, describing a secret midnight meeting between two characters: Stanton and James Burnham. The text focuses on romantic atmosphere—moonlight, tropical setting with sugar cane and bananas, Burnham's fashionable appearance in white linen with an amber glass cane. The passage emphasizes Burnham as an elegant, intellectual "dandy of original ideas" and ends with his cryptic question "Is it live and let live?" or—suggesting some moral or philosophical dilemma. Without additional context about the story's plot or these characters' identities, I cannot determine if this represents political allegory or social satire specific to *The Wasp's* contemporary readership.