The Wasp — 1894 — page 144: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** with minimal political satire. The main cartoon titled "WHY HE COULD TAME LIONS" depicts a thin, gaunt man with a child, illustrating a joke about lion-taming: a doctor claims lions won't attack someone already looking skeletal and sickly—implying the man is so malnourished he appears already dead. A second small cartoon titled "WHAT WILL KILL PARKHURST ISM" shows a figure labeled as opposing "Parkhurst-ism" (likely referencing Reverend Charles Parkhurst's reform crusade against NYC corruption). The page is otherwise dominated by **San Francisco business advertisements**—banks, hotels, law firms, insurance companies—typical of period satirical magazines that relied heavily on advertising revenue. The satirical content is minimal.