The Wasp — 1892 — page 158: what you’re looking at

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**Main Image**: "Yankee Doodle" (after Willard's famous painting) depicts a woman in tattered clothing smoking a pipe, appearing disheveled and possibly intoxicated. This reinterprets the iconic American symbol to critique women's behavior. **Article Topic**: The text discusses growing alcohol consumption and gambling among women in San Francisco society—wine drinking, whisky cocktails, poker parties, and lottery ticket purchases. The author expresses concern that these practices are becoming normalized, particularly among women of various social classes. **Satirical Point**: By pairing the debased "Yankee Doodle" image with the article, *The Wasp* ridicules what it views as the moral decline of American womanhood through adoption of "vices" historically associated with men. The cartoon represents anxieties about changing gender norms in the 1890s.