The Wasp — 1892 — page 159: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a literary/editorial page rather than a cartoon page. The content consists of several short prose pieces and poems: - **"The Board of Education"**: An editorial criticizing school board appointments, arguing members should be selected for merit rather than political connections. - **"A Bachelor's Reminiscences"**: A humorous personal essay about romantic misadventures. - **"Theatrical Potpourri"**: Social commentary on women wearing tight tights in theater, debating whether padding creates wrinkles. - Several short humorous poems like "A Fleeting Smile" and "Weak." The page demonstrates *The Wasp's* satirical approach through prose rather than visual cartooning—critiquing institutional incompetence and social pretension with wit and irony typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American magazines.