The Wasp — 1895 — page 1077: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **advertising** for San Francisco businesses circa early 1900s, with one small cartoon illustration labeled "IN SUNDAY SCHOOL." The cartoon depicts a bald, stern-faced man in formal attire gesturing dismissively. The accompanying text presents a joke: a teacher asks what two things are necessary to happiness; a small girl answers "water and a baby." Below this is an extract from a novel about a pastor whose prayer-book and spectacles were wiped clean while his coat pockets were picked—suggesting hypocrisy or divine irony about a supposedly virtuous clergyman. The cartoon's point appears to be gentle social satire about religious institutions or the contradiction between pious appearance and actual behavior—a common theme in satirical magazines of this era.