The Wasp — 1893 — page 80: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon mocks Mr. Ned Greenway's attempts to maintain respectability across multiple San Francisco society circles. The seven numbered panels show him adopting different personas for different "clubs": 1. **Monday Evening Club** - poses as cultured gentleman reading about "Chamblas in society" 2. **Tuesday Evening Club** - curses social propriety 3. **Wednesday Evening Club** - leads "Chamblas" 4. **Thursday Night Cotillion** - dances energetically 5. **Friday Night Club** - displays physical exertion 6. **Saturday** - described as "German" Ned, physically exhausted The joke satirizes social climbers who perform contradictory versions of themselves depending on their audience—pretending refinement at one venue while behaving boorishly at another. The title references Shakespeare's line about competing ambitions, suggesting Greenway's social duplicity.