The Wasp — 1888 — page 316: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* contains primarily **literary and advertising content** rather than political cartoons. The left column features two poems: "Is Love Like This?" and "One of Them Comfortably Disposed," plus a brief dialogue between "Smith to Jones" about someone being sick upstairs. The right side displays **commercial advertisements** for bonds, banking services, patent medicines (cough remedies, stomach treatments), and wallpaper suppliers. The only illustration is a decorative **product advertisement** for "Abietine Medico" cough/bronchitis remedies—a typical late-19th/early-20th century patent medicine ad with ornate lettering. No political satire, caricatures, or social commentary appear on this particular page. It represents the magazine's mixed editorial and advertising model typical of the era.