The Wasp — 1891 — page 371: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings** for San Francisco-area hotels, springs resorts, and businesses, typical of late 19th-century trade publications. The only cartoon content is a **small illustrated advertisement** for "Napa Soda Springs" featuring a caricatured male figure labeled "Of Course He Feels Proud!" The drawing appears to mock masculinity or vanity—the man is depicted in an exaggerated, somewhat comical pose suggesting self-satisfaction, likely implying that Napa Soda Springs' mineral water produces this absurd prideful reaction in users. The cartoon uses crude physical caricature common to period satire, though the specific satirical target beyond general mockery of male vanity is unclear from context alone.