The Wasp — 1892 — page 80: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains multiple satirical pieces and stories rather than a single cartoon. The visible illustration shows a woman and child in Victorian-era dress, accompanying a story titled "She Came to the Rescue" about a modest-income couple's financial struggles and a woman's intervention. Other sections include "Shakespeare Rehashed" (parodying Shakespeare on marriage), "One Way of Looking at It" (discussing the Keely cure for alcoholism), "Sailing Under False Colors" (satirizing unmarried women's behavior at Santa Cruz), and "Worked Him as Usual" (domestic satire about a husband and wife). The satire targets Victorian social conventions, gender relations, financial pretension, and medical quackery. Without publication dates visible, the specific events referenced remain unclear.