The Wasp — 1879 — page 678: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains primarily **reader correspondence and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main illustrated content shows a **letter from "Nanny"** criticizing educational practices and children's book prices. The accompanying sketch depicts a young child in period dress. A second letter titled **"Labor Earnest"** discusses drunkenness and social behavior in moralistic terms typical of the era. The remainder consists of **commercial advertisements** for mattresses, carpet beating services, and carpet cleaning machines. The letters reflect late-19th/early-20th-century social concerns about education costs, childhood welfare, and moral behavior, but lack specific political satire or identifiable caricatures. This appears to be a relatively mundane issue mixing reader opinion pieces with business advertising.