The Wasp — 1887 — page 125: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two satirical pieces: **"An Eccentric Wedding"** mocks what appears to be an unusual Dallas marriage involving ticket scalping and unconventional arrangements. The dialogue between a waiter, guest, preacher, and groom satirizes mercenary attitudes toward matrimony and organized religion's complicity. **"How the Lion Woos His Bride"** is an illustrated fable about a young woman pursued by a jealous lion. The narrative mixes animal behavior with human courtship conventions, apparently commenting on possessiveness and predatory behavior in romantic relationships. **"Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness, Hay Fever"** is a medical advertisement claiming to cure these conditions via mail order. The cartoons use anthropomorphized animals and exaggerated scenarios to critique social hypocrisy around money, marriage, and masculine jealousy in late 19th/early 20th-century America.