The Wasp — 1888 — page 291: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two distinct pieces: **Left column:** "Bill Nye Visits the Navy" - a humorous essay by Bill Nye (a real 19th-century humorist) describing a tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The piece pokes fun at naval operations, sailors' behavior, and military bureaucracy through anecdotal observations. **Right column:** "How Lovely Woman Drinks" - a satirical dialogue between two young women at a Staten Island Ferry, joking about women secretly drinking water (then considered unladylike) rather than more "proper" beverages. The humor plays on Victorian social pretensions about female behavior. The page also contains a small advertisement for "Horsford's Acid Phosphate" at the bottom. Both pieces use gentle satire to mock social conventions and human behavior of the era.