The Wasp — 1895 — page 531: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains four separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Round and About"**: A sketch mocking an artist friend of Josillong's, where the punchline involves an unflattering portrait being mistaken for the subject's actual head. 2. **"A Professional Greeting"**: Cartoon showing a man in formal dress telling a ballerina, "Now, do be careful and not crumple my skirts"—satirizing either affected vanity or role-reversal humor. 3. **"The Pickpocket"**: A poem about a cautious maid named Belinda who guards her pocket against sharpers posing as gentlemen on a train. 4. Various shorter satirical anecdotes about absent-mindedness, Eastern drummers, and bloomer fashion. The page largely targets social pretension, criminal types, and evolving women's fashion (bloomers), typical of late-19th-century American satirical journalism.