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This is primarily a **satirical story** (not a cartoon) mocking faith healers and medical quackery popular in the early 1900s. **The Setup:** A character named Wagliostro claims to heal broken bones, hearts, and umbrellas through faith alone, not medicine. This is so successful that drug stores nearly close—except they survive by selling alcohol (saloon licenses are expensive, so running a drugstore is cheaper). **The Satire:** Wagliostro becomes wealthy and famous by being his own advertisement: he stays healthy, appearing to prove his methods work. The phrase "well heeled" (meaning wealthy) plays on his "hobby horse"—a figurative journey built on pretense and deception. **The Point:** The story ridicules both faith healers exploiting the gullible and the irony that drugstores survive by becoming alcohol vendors rather than genuine pharmacies. It's a critique of medical fraud and corruption in American healthcare circa 1910s. The page is otherwise filled with **patent medicine and alcohol advertisements**—products Judge's advertisers themselves peddle—adding ironic layers to the satire.

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Golf Suitings. Beoadooay Ks 19th NEW vorK. TANULAW S Sq EPRODUCED in colors from the original water- color drawings and _printed upon grade plate paper. high The series is made up of three pictures—two of the subjects in panel form are shown herein. These new Stan- laws’ poster effects make most beau- tiful pictures for home decorative Bize 104 tn. x25} to. Stanlaws’ are for purposes. Poster Pictures sale by all The art dealers and high-class booksellers and stationers. They are sold at 50 cents each, or the complete set of three will be forwarded, charges prepaid, for $1.25, Gize 10} tm. x22 tm. JUDGE COMPANY 110 FIFTH AVENUE » =» » » NEW YORK THE TAIL OF THE HOBBY HORSE. - | [TLE Eddie did chores for the great | was instructed as to the course he should Wagliostro, whose business was to |mend broken hearts, bones and umbrel- las by faith alone. So successful was |Wagliostro in doing away with medi- cines that most of the drug stores in the town would have been forced out of busi- |ness had it not been for the fact that saleon licenses were expensi was cheaper to run a drug store however, were prosperot Wagliostro, as a healer, achieved wide fame. He was his own living example and thus the expense of hiring a person for this réle was ob ed. Before he became a healer this man was very poor, indeed; but by following the business for a few years the healer proved the ‘efficacy of his own treatment by pro: viding for himself the reputation, finan- cially speaking, of being “well heeled.” By riding a hobby horse along the pat! way of life, he had found the journ | both pleasant and profitable; and it was |therefore perhaps not unnatural that for a happy Yule-tide present for his diminutive chore this should heve a_ hobby hoy selected man horse Joyful was the soul of little Eddie, and with that pride which cometh before a fall the chore boy showed his pr © butcher's lad nvy and malice are not limited to age or youth; thus it was that the youth- ful ard left the butcher charge of his hobby horse to find the horse tailless when he re turned. When Eddie recovered from his wrath he decided upon the novel plan of taking the horse-to a toy hospital and having the injury remedied he healer would not consent juine specimen was pl sent to lad in ne day, only The ed in comfort- bitter. Gloom is upon his brow. He scowls fiercely. are as maledictions The baby toddles against his foot and he immediately drives it away He addresses his better half as you!" | Tragedy is in the atmosphere |such moods men have done murder | Is the woman al: Not to a {noticeable degree. She glances at the man, notes his corrugated brow, whispers: “Poor John! It is late." Then she bustles about her work, and In and settlement, “we're after a railroad now.” “You don’t say!” ef we could only git a railroad to come this way, kill a few cows an’ cut off ¢ legs of the older cit- izens, we'd sue it fer damages an’ git enough to build a town hall an’ grade the cemetery !"—A tlanta Constitution “Spain has an cight-hour labor law now. | “It doesn't apply to rioters lutionists, docs it?" | mercial Tribune. nd revo- —Cincinnati Com- aid the housewife in y, you just told me that so hungry you could cat a ou wer jouse “Yes, mum; but I meant a porter \nouse.""—Chicago News. | reached physical maturit: |the W HE mood of the man is strenuously |soon she speaks : Anon Ite mutters, and his mutterings | in three minutes he has recov. pursue ery time the hall clock struck te hour, Eddie's task was to raise his es toward the attic, make motions with |. 5 hands and mouth—and faith that the horse would soon be possessed o! a new tail, Even when the boy grw i and stopped the hall clock, ‘sis did not end. Just at that s perhaps no tail coming; there was a wail coming. Such an e ive lesson was administered to the youth that he resumed his hand-and-mo th gyrations with renewed vigor, and I tle by little became the victim of the illtion that his hobby horse in time would be- come whole Eddic grew in faith as he grew in years The tail of the hobl Hl. One day, horse grew no! at when the young man jad id was civ. ing his hobby horse absent treatment from the business part of town, a potice- man discovered him in the very act. A jury decided that Eddie's mind was unbalanced and ordered him confined Little Eddie—still known by that nomen because of his childish conduct continued during an many years his periodical sttempts to giv sent treatment His antics and talks on such oc incarceration of the hobby horse were considered with careful interest by the greatest. sp Unknown to illusions jostro residence burned to the ists in the country this victim of ground—and the hobby horse burned with it. But just before Eddie was transferred to the ward for incurables he insisted that he could plainly sce the hob- by horse in the attic, and that it had a tail Yes; the hobby horse at last had a able quarters in the garret_ and Eddie | tail—and this is the tale. THE AVERTED TRAGEDY. By Mred J. Waterhouse “Dinner is ready, John.” Magic words! In two minutes the man feels better; red; in five, en, peaceful; ten filled with ineflabl he is calm; in happy; fourteen, bliss. Now the man smiles constantly ; he tells funny stories; good-nature oozes from him, and when the woman tenderly asks if he can afford a spring hat for her. says, “Course,” and beams upon her And this is one man, not two, and thus is the evil spirit exorcised Moral (for wise housewives only) — Feed the animal. Young doctor—* Was the operation you performed upon the American who turned from the Philippines for treat- ment. successful?” Old doctor—"It was, thoroughly 0. It will necessitate at least two more. —Chicago Record-Herald. Fane—" There's alw thing about bargains.” Fohn—" What's that? Fane—" Why, you never can whether a 49-cent plate is marked diy from 50 cents or up from 48."—D« Free Press. 's one puzzling Mr. Nuyorkis—" Hand me the 1 ing paper. will you, dear?” Mrs Do you wish t the stocl 3?” Mr. Nuyorkis—"No ; I merely \ to sec if the Weather bureau pre‘ any explosions for to-day.""—Oltio > Fournal. comicbooks.com