The Wasp — 1891 — page 39: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising** with one significant cartoon. The main illustrated content is "Nature Tried Her Prentice Hands On" (lower right), depicting two young women alongside text: "Then She Made the Lassies OR!" The cartoon appears to satirize **female beauty standards or cosmetic enhancement**—suggesting that nature's initial attempt at creating women was crude, requiring later "improvement." This reflects period anxieties about modern femininity and artificiality. The surrounding ads (whiskey, furniture, opticians, etc.) target San Francisco merchants and professionals circa early 1900s. The page lacks clear political commentary; instead it combines commercial notices with light social humor typical of satirical magazines of this era.