The Wasp — 1888 — page 221: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **literary and advertising content** rather than political cartoons. The left side features two poems: "The Singer in the Country Church" and "No Use for Thermometers" (a humorous dialogue about a young man arguing that thermometers are unnecessary for measuring temperature). Both appear to be standalone literary pieces typical of the magazine's satirical humor. The right side is dominated by **advertisements** for various products: a mail-order offer, Burke's Stout beer, printing services, and patent medicines ("Weak Men," "Ladies" remedies). These ads represent typical early 20th-century marketing. There are **no identifiable political cartoons or caricatures** on this page. The satire is limited to the gentle humor in the poems themselves, particularly the thermometer dialogue's absurdist logic.