The Wasp — 1895 — page 782: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings** for San Francisco businesses (hotels, restaurants, printing services, saloons) from approximately the 1890s era. The single cartoon titled **"THE NATURAL INFERENCE"** depicts two figures in Victorian dress. The caption references "Miss Gay" wondering where the phrase "next to nothing" originated, with "Marie" responding while "bathing suits, I suppose." The joke appears to be a **double entendre about women's bathing costumes**—the phrase "next to nothing" likely refers to how revealing or minimal these garments were considered by Victorian standards, making it a mild sexual humor typical of period satire magazines. The rest of the page contains standard commercial advertisements with no political or satirical content.