The Wasp — 1887 — page 110: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political cartoons. The visible advertisements include: - **Beauty and Skin Care** remedies (top right) - **L.A. Berteling, Scientific Optician** (center right) - advertising optical instruments and patent inventions - **Peplow & Tilley, Printers & Book Binders** (lower right) - **Rupture treatment** advertisement (bottom right) The only substantive editorial content visible is "**An Excellent Picture**" — a humorous anecdote about a visitor to a Chicago gallery who mistakes a portrait of "General Jim Fagan" for an actual soldier. The joke involves comedic misidentification and disappointment. The page represents typical late-19th/early-20th century magazine layout mixing satirical humor with commercial advertising.