The Wasp — 1890 — page 121: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main visual elements include: - A "Great Kidney Cure" patent medicine advertisement (left) - Multiple remedy and product ads (Shawes Pastoral Syrup, Kelly's Corn Cure, etc.) - A Modene hair removal product advertisement with illustrated female faces The editorial content includes a humorous piece titled "A Church Greeting" describing a satirical encounter at a fashionable church where the narrator mistakes it for a different denomination, and a poem "Patti's Advent" about winter scenery. **The satire targets**: Fashionable churches (mocking pretension and wealth), patent medicine marketing (common fraud of the era), and late-19th-century advertising culture generally. This appears to be a typical Wasp page mixing social commentary with commercial content.