The Wasp — 1895 — page 229: what you’re looking at

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This page contains several satirical vignettes mocking San Francisco society and institutions: **"A Van Ness Avenue Scare"** ridicules the wealthy for being terrified by minor losses (a half-dollar poker chip). **"A Lively Time"** depicts a couple's marital discord over whist (card game), with the husband sarcastically praising his wife's rudeness. **"Our Postoffice"** is a longer poem satirizing the inefficiency and long waits at San Francisco's post office, where citizens endure bureaucratic delays while paying taxes. **"Worse and More of It"** mocks a woman for complaining about her weight while a doctor attributes her excessive thinness concern to vanity. Overall, the page uses humor to critique contemporary urban life, class pretensions, municipal inefficiency, and gender stereotypes among San Francisco's middle and upper classes.