The Wasp — 1891 — page 58: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and advice columns** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: **Advertisements** for patent medicines (Simmons Liver Regulator, Tutt's Pills), a saw manufacturing company, a photographer, and various San Francisco businesses. **Advice/humor columns** featuring dialogues between characters like "Murphy" and "Slattery" discussing employment and wages, and "Mrs. Gadd" discussing music lessons—typical working-class humor of the period. **Notable satirical bits**: A mock dialogue about "marriage failure" and references to "Chinese missions," reflecting period attitudes toward immigrants and religion. The page demonstrates *The Wasp's* mix of **advertisements funding satirical journalism** while filling space with gentle social humor targeting working-class concerns and domestic situations rather than hard political satire.