The Wasp — 1893 — page 480: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and professional notices** rather than satirical content. The top features two illustrated opera glasses advertisements and various medical/dental services typical of late 19th-century San Francisco publications. The only substantial editorial content is a brief item titled "READ THIS," announcing *The Wasp*'s special arrangement with *Cosmopolitan Magazine* to provide subscriptions. It promotes *Cosmopolitan* as a "high-class" publication featuring quality writing and illustration, available for $5 yearly. Below this is a section encouraging readers to submit "good reading and good pictures" to *The Wasp* at competitive rates. The remainder consists of classified advertisements for patent medicines (Burnham's Clam Bouillon, Tarrant's Extract, Damiana Bitters) and professional services—dentists, attorneys, and a typographical firm.