The Wasp — 1887 — page 201: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings**, not a satirical cartoon. It contains: - A column titled "THRIFT AND HUMOR" featuring anecdotes about household economics and servant management - Extensive hotel and boarding-house advertisements for San Francisco and California locations - A wholesale groceries advertisement for "DeWitt & Harris" - A directory of leading hotels on the Pacific Coast The "Thrift and Humor" section includes period-appropriate domestic humor about negotiating with servants and managing household expenses, reflecting late 19th-century class attitudes. However, there are **no identifiable political cartoons or caricatures** on this page—it's fundamentally a commercial/directory issue rather than satirical editorial content.