The Wasp — 1893 — page 170: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: 1. **"Seven Ages of Modern Man"** — a poem satirizing different life stages, from infancy through old age, mocking vanity and social pretense (e.g., the "masher" obsessed with fashion, the bald man needing larger hats). 2. **Multiple advertisements** for services and products (shoes, dental work, hair growth remedies). 3. **"Bald Heads!"** — a large advertisement for "Skookum Root Hair Grower," a patent medicine claiming to cure baldness. This reflects the era's obsession with hair loss remedies and reveals period attitudes about masculinity and appearance. 4. **"Entr'acte et Rideau"** — a brief theatrical poem about a curtain rising and falling, likely unrelated satire. The page demonstrates how satire and advertising coexisted in late 19th/early 20th-century magazines.