The Wasp — 1893 — page 159: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains a serialized story titled "She Found Her Boy" rather than political cartoons. The narrative follows a woman in a rattrap who inquires about a boy named Ike, learning he's gone to Colorado seeking work. The woman (apparently his mother) eventually locates him working at a mine, only to discover he's become involved in a mining accident or death. The story functions as social commentary on economic hardship and westward migration during America's industrial era. Young men like Ike were forced to seek dangerous work in remote locations, separating them from families. The tragedy implied here reflects anxieties about labor exploitation and the human costs of industrial expansion that *The Wasp* regularly critiqued through satirical fiction.