The Wasp — 1893 — page 362: what you’re looking at

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This page primarily contains "The Old Maid's Diary," a satirical column mocking San Francisco society women. The illustrated header depicts a fashionable woman, satirizing contemporary fashion trends—specifically the "poke bonnets" described as rage in the East. The main satire targets married women's treatment of domestic help and their avoidance of household work. The author criticizes San Francisco's wealthy for frequenting restaurants instead of cooking at home, attributing this to laziness rather than necessity. A secondary anecdote ridicules spiritualism and church scandal—a minister attending séances and allegedly committing fraud. The page concludes with a political note about Cleveland recognizing Brazil's democracy and appointing a new minister. This is primarily social satire of upper-class affectation and hypocrisy.