The Wasp — 1894 — page 450: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily a **San Francisco business directory and advertisement section**, not a political cartoon page. The bulk of the content consists of hotel, restaurant, and service business listings typical of late 19th/early 20th-century advertising. The only illustration is a small sketch captioned "AT THE ANNEX," depicting what appears to be two women in period dress having a conversation. Below it is a brief comedic dialogue: **WEAK-MINDED WOMAN**: "Do you think it is eminently proper for us to go into that gentlemen's club for luncheon?" **STRONG-MINDED WOMAN**: "Eminently proper! Why, I do believe they only have girls to wait on us in the halls." This is gentle **satire about women's rights and changing social conventions**—poking fun at anxieties about women entering previously male-only spaces, presented as absurdist humor. The "strong-minded woman" dismisses such concerns as outdated prudishness.