The Wasp — 1888 — page 201: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political cartoons. The main article "STYLISH MEN" discusses fashion and personal style among upper-class men, mentioning figures like Scrivener and J. J. O'Brien as examples of stylish gentlemen. The right column contains **period advertisements**: Burke's Stout (beer), Dr. Salfield's patent medicines (including "Pall-O-Flows" for corns), and Rosenthal's printing services. The only visual cartoon appears to be a small bottle illustration advertising Willow Pith Corn Cure. **No political satire is present on this page.** It represents typical late 19th/early 20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial commentary on fashion with commercial advertisements for consumer products and patent medicines—common in satirical publications of the era.