The Wasp — 1894 — page 100: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* contains miscellaneous social commentary rather than a unified political cartoon. The main illustrated content includes: **"The Old Maid's Diary"** — a satirical illustrated narrative mocking unmarried women and their romantic misadventures, featuring sketches of women in period dress. **"What Change May Come"** — verses and illustrations contrasting dignified older dancers with modern dancers whose "eyes from the bullet-girls' niggardly skirts / And blush would the cheek of the maid," criticizing contemporary dance as scandalous. The page also contains gossip columns about Berkeley society women and advertisements for patent medicines (R. Hall's Pulmonary Balsam). The satire targets unmarried women, modern dance styles, and frivolous upper-class behavior—typical *Wasp* content mocking social pretension and changing moral standards.