The Wasp — 1895 — page 802: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings** for San Francisco businesses (hotels, restaurants, printers, saloons) from approximately the 1890s, based on typographic style and references. The only illustration is a **social etiquette cartoon** titled "NATURALLY," depicting two women in conversation about children's manners. The dialogue jokes about how children's behavior becomes "more artificial every day"—the humor relies on Victorian-era anxieties about proper deportment and socialization. The cartoon makes no overt political statement; it's gentle social satire about middle-class concerns regarding child-rearing and increasingly artificial social conventions of the period. The page itself serves primarily as a commercial directory rather than editorial content.