The Wasp — 1896 — page 921: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and notices** rather than satirical content. The main cartoon, titled "The Bitterness of Defeat," shows a woman at a doorway and a child, illustrating a caption about a "Bill tramp" who came seeking shelter. The humor appears domestic rather than political—playing on class anxiety and the vulnerability of women householders. Below is another cartoon captioned "One Way of Looking at It," depicting women in conversation, with a joke about appetites. The page is dominated by commercial advertisements for tobacco, steamship lines (to California, China, Japan), and patent medicines—typical for 1890s American publications. A "Notice to Creditors" suggests this is from an actual historical issue.