The Wasp — 1888 — page 79: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **literary and advertising content** rather than political cartoons. It contains: **Poetry/Literary Works:** - "That Confounded V" and "The Countersign" — romantic narrative poems - Several short humor pieces with titles like "A More Appropriate Name" and "What is Rounder Than the World" **One Illustration:** A small medical advertisement for "Cuticura" skin treatments, featuring a bearded man's portrait promoting remedies for skin diseases. **Advertisements:** Multiple Sacramento and Stockton business ads (banks, manufacturers, a colonist settlement service, an asylum). The page lacks political satire or caricature. It appears to be a typical late-19th century magazine page mixing light entertainment with local advertising—standard content for regional American periodicals of that era.