The Wasp — 1888 — page 225: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertisements and classified listings** rather than editorial cartoons or satirical content. The left side contains San Diego and Sacramento business advertisements (real estate brokers, manufacturers, banks), while the right side features hotel and boarding-house advertisements with wholesale tea and coffee pricing. The center contains a humor section titled "THE INSOLVENCE OF CAPITAL" — a series of comedic dialogues between an employer and employee about wages, poverty, and economic hardship. The jokes mock capitalist indifference to workers' suffering, with the boss dismissing complaints about starvation wages. There are no political cartoons visible on this page. The satire is entirely textual, targeting class inequality through dialogue-based humor typical of 19th-century American satirical magazines.