The Wasp — 1890 — page 315: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is predominantly **advertising and directory listings** for San Francisco-area hotels, restaurants, and services, interspersed with several brief humorous anecdotes. The humor sections include: - **"It Was the Parrot"** - a joke about a woman on a streetcar displaying a parrot, causing commotion - **"A New Way of Procedure"** - dialogue about swallowing a gulp of alcohol - **"At a Legation Reception"** - satire of diplomatic pretension regarding Chinese enterprises - **"Patriotic Rivalry"** - absurdist humor about nations competing at an unspecified show - **"Not Built That Way"** - a joke about Colonel Grass and Kentuckians The cartoons use light social satire typical of late-19th-century American humor magazines—mocking manners, pretension, and ethnic stereotypes. No major political figures are clearly identified or caricatured on this particular page.