The Wasp — 1895 — page 914: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **advertising** for San Francisco businesses (hotels, restaurants, saloons, printing services), with a small satirical cartoon titled "MISUNDERSTOOD" in the center. The cartoon depicts a woman speaking to a man, with the caption: "She (a member of the W.C.T.U.) — 'My dear man, will you not join us in our crusade entitled "The tips that touch wine shall never touch mine"?' He — 'Certainly! I'm just so drunk as all that!'" **The satire targets** the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), a real anti-alcohol organization. The joke mocks the disconnect between the woman's earnest temperance pledge and the man's humorous misinterpretation—he drunkenly agrees while claiming he's *already* drunk, subverting her moral message. It's satirizing both temperance activism and male resistance to it through drunken absurdity.