The Wasp — 1895 — page 1021: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising** rather than editorial content. The central illustration titled "Fashionable Chiropraxy" depicts a satirical scene: a well-dressed woman writes a letter while a chiropractor manipulates a patient's spine. The accompanying dialogue mocks affected, pretentious writing and suggests chiropractic treatment was fashionable among wealthy society women of the era. The joke appears to be that the woman's overly formal, flowery handwriting reflects fashionable affectation, while her patient receives chiropractic care—then a relatively new, somewhat dubious medical practice marketed to the affluent. The page contains numerous San Francisco business advertisements (bicycles, fire equipment, whiskey, laundry services) typical of *The Wasp's* commercial revenue model.