The Wasp — 1893 — page 305: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top Left - "Frisco Celebrities"**: A caricatured portly man with a prominent mustache, labeled with text by "Henry S. Mar-t-n" (likely a San Francisco figure), satirizing his self-important status among "Native Sons." **Top Right - "Departed Love"**: A sentimental sketch showing a woman at a window, paired with melancholic verse about lost romance and school days. **Middle Section**: Dialogue snippets mock various San Francisco social types—singers, tramps seeking lodging, and hotel proprietors. The exchanges use exaggerated dialect and class-based humor typical of 1880s-90s satirical publications. **Bottom - "Two Wishes" and related sketches**: Humorous domestic exchanges about materialism and relationships, with working-class characters expressing wishes for steam yachts or realistic husbands "with a tender look." The page satirizes San Francisco society, class pretensions, and period gender dynamics through caricature and comedic dialogue.