The Wasp — 1887 — page 331: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is predominantly **advertising**, not political satire. It consists almost entirely of classified advertisements for San Diego and San Francisco businesses from what appears to be the late 19th or early 20th century. The sole non-advertising content is a small illustrated piece titled **"A Kaleidoscope Free!"** in the lower left, which discusses "The New Science of Palmistry"—a humorous piece about palm-reading and fortune-telling, featuring anecdotal observations about hands and fingers. This appears to be light satirical commentary on the then-popular pseudoscience of palmistry, mocking its claims through exaggerated examples. The rest of the page features hotel, boarding house, real estate, and mercantile advertisements typical of period publications.