The Wasp — 1893 — page 34: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **theater advertising and entertainment reviews**, not political satire. It features notices for San Francisco theaters including the New California Theatre, Stockwell's Theatre, and the Baldwin Theatre, advertising productions such as "The Old Homestead," "Mr. Barnes of New York," and "The Sportsman." The page includes a brief anecdote titled "A Badly Treated Boy" about Colonel Fizzletop, a man who smokes cigars and pressures his son Johnny to smoke, using the refusal as justification to withhold the boy's allowance. The joke mocks the father's unreasonable behavior and hypocrisy regarding tobacco use. There is no significant political cartoon content visible on this page.