The Wasp — 1890 — page 487: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* contains social gossip and society notes rather than political cartoons. The main illustration shows a fashionably dressed woman in Victorian-era clothing. The text chronicles upper-class social activities in California—receptions in Santa Cruz, visits by notable figures like San Francisco newspaper editor T.T. Williams, and the opening of a new Sea Beach Hotel on Bass Hill. There's discussion of society people arriving for the summer season and enjoying beach activities. A humor column titled "Warranted to Kill" at the bottom presents a brief comic dialogue between characters Brown and Green about old friends. The content reflects *The Wasp's* role documenting California's leisure class and their summer social calendar during the 1880s.