The Wasp — 1889 — page 323: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and humor columns** rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **Main sections:** - "Rather Too Smart" — a humorous dialogue between a smart boy and a dry-goods customer haggling over glove prices, satirizing clever salesmanship - "A Heavenly Vision" — a comedic anecdote about a man's drunken vision of St. Peter - "His Claim Badly Spoiled" — a joke about a railroad employee caught with stolen goods - Various advertisements for patent medicines, pens, and commercial services **The satire** targets everyday social absurdities: commercial dishonesty, drunkenness, and petty crime. These are not political cartoons but rather **humor pieces typical of 19th-century American satirical magazines**, which mixed social commentary with practical advertisements and vaudeville-style jokes for general amusement.