Puck — April 17, 1878 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Puck Magazine, April 17, 1878 This page contains two cartoons. The top shows the magazine's masthead with the tagline "What fools these Mortals be!" The bottom cartoon, titled "RECONCILED," depicts a reconciliation scene at a train depot. A man in Western attire (labeled "TILTON" and "WIFE" on luggage) appears to be departing with a woman, while a portly gentleman on the right seems distressed or defeated. This likely references the famous Tilton-Beecher scandal—a messy 1870s adultery case involving Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton's wife. The cartoon satirizes the resolution of this public scandal, with the wife apparently leaving with Tilton rather than remaining involved with Beecher.