The Wasp — 1890 — page 66: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main illustrated feature is "A Scared Editor" — a sketch showing what appears to be a newspaper editor confronted by an angry visitor, likely depicting a common scenario of editors receiving complaints or threats from subjects of their reporting. The poem "In Spite of the Funny Man" is satirical social commentary in verse, mocking various hypocrisies: theater pretensions, prohibition debates, class contradictions, and social pretense — typical targets of turn-of-the-century American satire. The rest of the page contains classified ads (fireworks, medical treatments, hotels, furniture) and short humorous dialogues like "Dreadful!" and "A Handsome Offer," representing typical magazine filler content of the era.