The Wasp — 1895 — page 118: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* contains several distinct sections: **Top illustration**: "Types of Frisco Girls" shows three fashionably dressed women in 1890s Gibson Girl style, labeled as "girls of Nob Hill on the way to the matinee"—satirizing wealthy San Francisco society women and their ostentatious fashion. **Left illustration**: An unlabeled sketch showing a woman and what appears to be an elderly person, likely depicting a social commentary on class or age differences (the artist signature reads "C. George"). **Right section**: Poetry titled "At Home and Abroad" featuring crude dialect verses about kicking, appearing to mock working-class speech patterns. **Bottom section**: Brief newspaper notices including "Not a Silurian City" discussing San Francisco's banking institutions, and advertisements for patent medicines ("Dr. Henley's Remedy"). The overall tone is satirical commentary on San Francisco society, class distinctions, and contemporary commercial culture.