The Wasp — 1888 — page 123: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire or comics. It contains commercial advertisements for San Diego and Sacramento businesses, including real estate offices, hotels, boarding houses, tea and coffee merchants, banks, and various other services. The only non-advertising content is a column titled "THRIFT AND HUMOR" featuring brief anecdotes and jokes, mostly involving domestic situations and wordplay—such as exchanges between husbands and wives about household expenses, dogs, and boarding arrangements. There is no identifiable political cartoon or sustained satirical commentary on this page. The humor is conversational and domestic rather than politically engaged. This appears to be a typical page from a late 19th/early 20th-century publication mixing advertising with light entertainment content.