The Wasp — 1889 — page 60: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The left side features an advertisement for **L.A. Berteling, Scientific Optician** with a decorative illustration of a person using optical equipment. Below that is an ad for **Tansy Pills** (a patent medicine) and "Stockton Advertisements" section listing various hotels and businesses. The rest of the page consists of hotel and lodging advertisements organized alphabetically—establishments across California and the West Coast, including the Occidental Hotel in San Francisco, The Ebbitt in Washington D.C., and numerous small-town hotels and boarding houses. This is a commercial listings page typical of period magazines, containing no discernible political cartoons or satirical content.