The Wasp — 1894 — page 486: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, with one small satirical cartoon titled "A Symphony Concert" centered in the lower half. The cartoon depicts two men at a table—labeled "Waiter" and "Waiter Conductor"—in what appears to be a restaurant. The joke plays on the double meaning of "conductor": one leads an orchestra, the other serves customers. The waiter asks what refreshments to bring, then references musical pieces as if conducting a band. The humor is in conflating restaurant service with orchestral conducting. The final caption ("'TIS strangely appropriate that when a Miss becomes a Mrs. it is merely a question of changing is to r") is a separate pun about marriage and spelling—unrelated to the concert cartoon above it. The page is otherwise filled with period advertisements for clothing, liquor, flour, and other goods typical of early 20th-century San Francisco publications.