The Wasp — 1892 — page 165: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *The Wasp* is primarily **advertising and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartooning. The left column contains several brief jokes attributed to or about "Rufus Choate" (a historical figure), including stories about professional fee disputes and misunderstandings. These are mild workplace humor rather than satire. The right side features **product advertisements**: Woodbury's Facial Soap (with a portrait illustration), Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, Carl Upmann's cigars, and the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The middle section includes short humorous dialogues on topics like voting eligibility, migratory birds, and a comb salesman's pitch to a bald man—standard period comedy with no apparent political content. **No significant political satire or caricature is evident on this page.** It represents typical late-19th/early-20th-century magazine filler content mixing light humor with commercial advertising.