The Wasp — 1879 — page 832: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

The page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"A Skeleton in Every Family"** - An illustration accompanying an article about how families commonly possess anatomical skeletons for educational purposes, which the text suggests creates an amusing domestic situation. 2. **"The Silent Stranger"** - A humorous anecdote about a gentleman traveling by train who must repeatedly explain to conductors at successive stations why his trunk belongs in the baggage car, despite the stranger's apparent indifference to the matter. 3. **Multiple short humor pieces** including "Origin of White Trash" (a dialect story), "Loving a Whole Family," and "Love in the Grasshopper Clime" - all containing satirical commentary through exaggerated narratives and dialect writing typical of period humor magazines. The page is primarily text-based satirical content rather than political cartooning.