Puck — March 19, 1879 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Puck Magazine, March 19, 1879 **Main Cartoon: "Heroic Treatment to Cure the Walking Mania"** This satirical cartoon mocks a social phenomenon called "walking mania"—apparently a concern about excessive walking or pedestrianism among the wealthy. The image shows a fashionable man in a top hat being physically restrained by his wife, who wraps him in bedding labeled "FROM YOUR LOVING WIFE." The satire suggests that concerned spouses are resorting to extreme measures—essentially imprisoning their husbands—to cure this compulsive walking habit. Onlookers and servants observe the scene, emphasizing society's awareness of this peculiar "disease." The cartoon ridicules both the walking fad itself and the drastic domestic interventions it supposedly provoked among Victorian families.