The Wasp — 1895 — page 559: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **advertising and business directory** for San Francisco establishments (banks, breweries, insurance companies, etc.), with two small satirical illustrations embedded. The larger cartoon titled "THE NEW WOMAN" by De Maurier depicts women in what appears to be a domestic scene with tea service. The dialogue references a woman leaving to have tea in "the servants' hall" rather than with her husband—satirizing the emerging "New Woman" of the era who asserted independence and rejected traditional domestic roles. A smaller cartoon shows a couple discussing marriage timing, with the man stating it's unlucky to marry in June—social commentary on courtship customs. Both cartoons mock evolving gender relations and women's changing social positions in late-Victorian/Edwardian society, the typical satirical focus of *The Wasp*.