The Wasp — 1896 — page 339: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page features a satirical illustration of a woman labeled "We All Know Her," accompanied by descriptive text that catalogs her perceived character flaws and social pretensions. The cartoon depicts a fashionably dressed woman with exaggerated features, surrounded by vignettes showing her various behaviors: flirtatiousness, materialism, vanity, and social climbing. The satire targets a specific female social type of the era—likely a wealthy or aspiring bourgeois woman characterized by superficiality, romantic scheming, and moral duplicity. The accompanying text provides detailed mockery of her habits, appearance, and manipulation of social position. The page also contains unrelated articles about political scandals and an advertisement for Johannis soda, typical of period satirical magazines that mixed social commentary with commercial content.