The Wasp — 1896 — page 1011: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and satirical commentary** rather than political cartooning. The main illustration, titled "Ostracized Forever," depicts a well-dressed man and woman in what appears to be a social scene. The accompanying dialogue suggests a joke about social embarrassment: a woman has committed a breach of etiquette by wearing the same gown twice to the Horse Show—a scandalous faux pas in upper-class society at the time. The remainder of the page consists of **commercial advertisements** for wine merchants, hotels, meat suppliers, and whisky, interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes about social situations and products. The satire targets Victorian-era class consciousness and the rigid social conventions governing wealthy San Francisco society.