The Wasp — 1890 — page 443: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings** rather than political satire. The dominant feature is "JOKELETTES!!!" — a cartoon showing four figures in Victorian dress telling jokes, labeled "Perfectly sure, perfectly pure, perfectly harmless is Simmons Liver Regulator." The brief comic dialogue satirizes the medical profession: a barber claims a razor "hurt" because the user wasn't a "Christian scientist," and a doctor responds that he's a doctor himself, mocking both alternative medicine practitioners and conventional doctors as charlatans. The page otherwise contains hotel advertisements, pharmaceutical endorsements (Vinegar Bitters, Tarrant's Extract), and dental advertising — typical **late 19th-century periodical content**. The satire is mild and product-focused rather than politically substantive.