The Wasp — 1894 — page 191: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily a **business directory** for San Francisco, listing leading companies and manufacturers, with several comic illustrations on the left side. The cartoons depict a romantic scenario titled "There's Many a Slip." A well-dressed man (Mr. Long) interacts with a seated woman (Miss Flirty) across three panels, ending with him on his knees. The caption "Oh, hearken unto me, Miss Flirty—Agnes—on my humbled knees I fall—" suggests a proposal scene. Below, a brief joke plays on marital expectations: a woman married a man for "a million and a half," which her mother had "figured it up" to be his worth—the humor lying in the gap between assumed and actual wealth. The satire targets romantic miscalculation and courtship deception common to period comedy.