The Wasp — 1895 — page 512: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page features "Frisco Celebrities" and social commentary. The top cartoon depicts **Judge Campbell in the Pulpit**—a caricature suggesting judicial overreach into religious matters, likely criticizing a specific local judge's involvement with church affairs or his moral pronouncements. The accompanying poem mocks the judge's authority and righteousness. Below are several joke sections ("Made No Difference," "Provident," "Different Then") featuring domestic and social humor typical of the era—commentary on marriage, women's fashion (bloomer controversy), and class distinctions. The page also includes photographs of local San Francisco figures and discusses women's parliamentary dress reforms, indicating this is satirizing contemporary civic debates and local personalities recognizable to Wasp's Bay Area readership.