The Wasp — 1896 — page 335: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **advertising and commercial notices** for San Francisco businesses (circa early 1900s), with two small editorial cartoons. The cartoons depict social stereotypes: 1. **"A Distinction with a Difference"** shows contrasting figures discussing appearance and social class—likely satirizing snobbish attitudes about physical appearance and hair color as markers of respectability. 2. **"A Mean Bridegroom"** depicts a heavyset man and thin woman, captioned with dialogue about supporting her until marriage. This appears to satirize fortune-hunting or mercenary attitudes in courtship and marriages of convenience. Both cartoons mock social pretensions and relationship dynamics of the era through exaggerated character types. The page otherwise showcases local merchants, cycle manufacturers, and service providers advertising to San Francisco's readers.