The Wasp — 1896 — page 235: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertisements** with one small political cartoon titled "His Nocturnal Training" at the top center. The cartoon depicts two figures: a well-dressed man gesturing toward a clock, and a child on a bicycle. The dialogue reads: "Here, you are no scholar of an office boy if you can't tell the time of day." "Please, sir, I was educated at a night school." The **satire targets night school education quality**, suggesting that night schools provided inadequate instruction—specifically, that a student couldn't even learn to tell time. This was likely commentary on San Francisco's working-class evening education system, implying night schools were substandard compared to regular institutions. The joke relies on the audience's contemporary awareness of debates about educational standards for working people.