The Wasp — 1893 — page 492: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and business notices** for San Francisco financial institutions and services (1890s era), including banks, savings unions, and a tailor shop. The only cartoon appears in the upper left: a hand holding playing cards labeled with character traits like "QUICK," "CRAFTY," "SELFISH," and "CARELESS." This appears to illustrate the "Character Readings" column below it, which provides satirical personality assessments of writers submitting to the magazine—a common Wasp feature mocking contributors' egos and pretensions. The character analyses that follow are tongue-in-cheek critiques, describing writers as having various flaws (indolence, lack of purpose, fickleness). The entire section functions as the magazine's humorous editorial commentary on its own submissions.