The Wasp — 1894 — page 328: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **directory listings and advertisements** for San Francisco hotels, restaurants, and businesses. The single cartoon titled **"The Wicked Horse Editor"** depicts a humorous exchange between two figures: an editor at a desk and what appears to be a society reporter. The caption references the "Female Society Reporter" complaining about her workload—she's "run out of adjectives" and hasn't completed her column. The joke appears to satirize **journalistic excess in society reporting**: the reporter has exhausted descriptive language praising high-society events and needs guidance. The cartoon critiques both the repetitive nature of such coverage and perhaps the frivolous demands of society journalism itself. The "wicked horse" reference in the title remains unclear from the visible text.