The Wasp — 1895 — page 511: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains satirical anecdotes and humor rather than political cartoons. The illustrated stories mock social pretensions and everyday absurdities: **"Round and About"** opens with medical diagnosis humor, then presents vignettes ridiculing divorce proceedings, a minister's hypocrisy about work, and a hackman (cab driver) disputing fare payment. A central illustration shows two figures in what appears to be a cab or carriage, accompanying the hackman dialogue. The page includes a story about a typewriter operator and another about a yacht club member's tailoring mishap—gentle mockery of middle-class vanity and social climbing. The humor targets **pretension, dishonesty, and hypocrisy** among ordinary people rather than specific politicians or events. A **Royal Baking Powder advertisement** appears at bottom.