The Wasp — 1879 — page 574: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains an illustration labeled "Scene from 'As You Like It'" (Shakespeare's play) above two articles. The top article, "The Alms House: Miseri Succurrere Disco" (Latin: "I learn to succor the unfortunate"), discusses San Francisco's poor farm/almshouse near the Golden Gate Park. The article praises the institution as "a cosmopolitan home" where the blind, elderly, and infirm receive care. It describes the functioning almshouse with its grain fields and kitchen gardens, noting it houses twenty-one acres of various crops and provides dignified conditions for its residents. This appears to be earnest advocacy journalism rather than satire—presenting the almshouse as a humane public institution worthy of support and philanthropic interest from readers.