The Wasp — 1888 — page 416: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and poetry**, not political satire. The left column contains two poems: "Decoration Day" (about Civil War memorials) and "Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer" (a war narrative poem, credited to John Doyle O'Reilly). The center features "The Beverage," a sketch showing two figures in what appears to be a domestic interior scene, though the specific satire is unclear from the image. The right side is dominated by **patent medicine advertisements** (Napa Soda, Piso's consumption cure, Abietine liniment) and notices for wallpaper suppliers and Japanese papers. This appears to be a typical late 19th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with substantial advertising revenue. The political or satirical focus, if present, isn't prominent on this particular page.