The Wasp — 1894 — page 38: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon depicts a wealthy San Francisco society woman holding a large spray atomizer labeled "DANGER" while standing over several working-class figures (appearing to be laborers or poor people) huddled on the ground below her. The title's reference to "danger" appears ironic—suggesting that the *real* danger comes from the society leader herself, likely satirizing how wealthy elites viewed or treated the working classes, or how they used their power to suppress labor movements. The spray device suggests she's attempting to eliminate or control the lower classes, much as one might fumigate pests. This likely critiques class inequality and power dynamics in Gilded Age San Francisco, mocking the callous attitudes of the privileged toward workers.