The Wasp — 1888 — page 43: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire or cartoons. The left columns contain San Diego real estate and business advertisements (land agencies, mirrors/frames manufacturer, architects). The center features **"He Gets There Shust Der Same,"** a humorous poem in exaggerated German-accented English about a man's pursuit of a girl—typical period dialect humor mocking German immigrants. The right side advertises hotels, teas, and coffees, along with patent medicine ads promising cures for "weak men" and related ailments—standard late-19th/early-20th century advertising. There are no visible political cartoons or caricatures on this page. The "satire" is limited to the ethnic-dialect humor in the poem, reflecting period attitudes toward German immigrants that modern readers would likely find offensive.