The Wasp — 1893 — page 329: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political satire. The top features two illustrated women wearing opera glasses, lorgnettes, and spectacles—typical accessories of upper-class women attending cultural events. The small humor pieces ("Her Smile," "Good Evidence," "Draws Better," "Getting Ready for the Ball," "Too Much for Him," "A Dubious Attraction," "The Bivalve of Epicures") are genteel social comedies about courtship, fashion, and theater-going among the well-to-do. The remainder comprises commercial advertisements for products (Epps's Cocoa, champagne, dentistry) and San Francisco businesses. The satire, where present, targets *social pretension* and romantic folly among the genteel classes—not political figures or movements.