The Wasp — 1894 — page 134: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a **text-based editorial page** rather than a cartoon page. The masthead shows *The Wasp* is "the oldest carte a Paper in Colors in the United States" (established 1876), published weekly in San Francisco. The page contains **gossip and social commentary** targeting San Francisco's elite: Mrs. Charles Webb Howard's social climbing, Miss Maude Bourke's engagement scandal involving divorce and aristocratic pretension, and Colonel Graham's harsh military drill practices. The writing is characteristic **satirical journalism**—mocking wealthy San Franciscans' social pretensions, marital scandals, and contradictions between professed values and actual behavior. No specific major political figures appear, though military command is criticized.