The Wasp — 1895 — page 843: what you’re looking at

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This cartoon satirizes membership in San Francisco's Country Club. Two figures—a woman and man in outdoor dress—stand in a natural setting with a dog. The woman ("Diana Uptodate") suggests that shooting practice would qualify her for Country Club membership. The man ("Jack Chokeborn") responds that she'd need to be either a male telegraph station agent or a female telegraph agent in suburban San Francisco instead. The joke mocks the Country Club's apparent absurd or arbitrary membership criteria, suggesting that practical skills like marksmanship or telegraph work—useful for keeping burglars away—should logically qualify one for membership, but apparently don't. It's social satire critiquing exclusive club standards of the era.