The Wasp — 1895 — page 1047: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **not primarily satirical**—it's a society/celebrity feature article with portraits. The headline "She Gets a Thousand Dollars a Week" profiles **Madame Frances Saville**, a California opera singer performing in New York. The text celebrates her European success and recent Metropolitan Opera House performances. The accompanying portraits show Saville, **Moses A. Gunst** (a San Francisco cigar merchant and businessman), and **Miss Georgia Parker** (described as a "society slicer"). The Gunst profile is biographical rather than satirical, detailing his business success building one of America's largest cigar importing firms. The page functions as celebrity/business journalism rather than political commentary or cartoon satire.