The Wasp — 1893 — page 94: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* is primarily text-based social commentary rather than a traditional political cartoon. The main illustration shows a figure in period dress reading a sign labeled "ROUND AND ABOUT." The articles discuss San Francisco society issues: landscape gardening at the Olympic Club, criticism of the Bar Association's handling of client funds, and satire of California wines being passed off as imported French varieties at inflated prices. The commentary mocks pretension among San Francisco's wealthy elite—their poor taste, affectation, and dishonest business practices. References to fashionable clubs, imported goods, and financial impropriety suggest *The Wasp* targeted San Francisco's socially ambitious upper class for ridicule during this period.