The Wasp — 1891 — page 243: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two distinct pieces: **Left side:** "Her Business" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson—a short story about a woman who performs household duties while also conducting entrepreneurial ventures in pest control (remedies for "human diseases and their varying root"). **Right side:** "Go to the Sluggard, Thou Ant!"—a moral fable (likely Aesop-inspired) contrasting an industrious ant with a lazy sluggard woman. The ant visits her home, judges her idleness, and proves the superiority of hard work through demonstrating ant productivity. **Bottom:** A brief note about University Club resignations due to expensive governance. The page's satirical thrust appears to target female idleness and lack of industriousness, presenting work—particularly domestic labor—as morally virtuous. The juxtaposition suggests Stetson's story ironically subverts this messaging by showing women could be simultaneously domestic *and* entrepreneurial.