The Wasp — 1889 — page 432: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains five separate humorous prose pieces rather than political cartoons: 1. **"A Summer Girl"** - A poem mocking fashionable young women's affectations 2. **"Mrs. Lee and the Eloquent Man"** - A anecdote about Colonel M. discussing General Lee's wife, poking fun at verbose, self-important men 3. **"A Cabinet Joke"** - Political humor involving President Rusk and Cabinet members discussing an affair, satirizing bureaucratic discretion 4. **"Met a Deceiver"** - A humorous story about a deceptive woman and a pedestrian 5. **"Out on Fly"** and other pieces - Various short anecdotes The satire targets Victorian-era social pretension, verbose aristocrats, political hypocrisy, and romantic entanglements. Without visible illustrations, the humor relies entirely on witty narrative. The pieces exemplify *The Wasp*'s style of social commentary through comedic prose rather than visual caricature.