The Wasp — 1889 — page 110: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or satire. It contains hotel and business advertisements for California locations (Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, etc.) and services like banks and asylums. The only cartoon visible is in the upper left: **L.A. Berteling, Scientific Optician**—a humorous illustration showing a character with an enormous eye, advertising optical instruments and services at "427 Kearny St." The exaggerated eye is a straightforward visual pun about an optician's profession. Below that is a "Tansy Pills" advertisement making dubious medical claims. The page represents typical late 19th/early 20th-century magazine advertising practice, mixing legitimate businesses with patent medicines and quack remedies now recognized as fraudulent.