The Wasp — 1888 — page 68: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily a **title page and advertising section** rather than a satirical cartoon. It displays "The Wasp" masthead (Volume XX, Number 4) and features numerous San Francisco business advertisements from 1888. The only pictorial content is **Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler advertisement**, which includes a mustachioed man's face promoting a patent medicine claiming to cure "Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Etc." This represents typical 19th-century dubious medical marketing, though it's presented as commercial advertisement rather than satirical commentary. The page demonstrates how 1880s satirical magazines generated revenue through advertising while maintaining their publication. No political cartoons or social satire are present on this particular page.