A baby is about to experience the miracle of flight in The Trail to the Woods by Clarence Hawkes, 1907.  Previously, we discovered a precursor to the film A Cry in the Dark (1988): a dingo takes a baby in an illustration from The Wide World Magazine (1900).

This is actually a Googlewhack, as of this posting: "A pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cheese."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1903.

It's only [wickedly] funny if the witches laugh, from The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1906.

A precursor to Barbara Streisand from The Lady's Realm (1900).  The caption reads: "'Down on your bended knees, then, and adore me,' said Babs."

An illustration from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum (1906).

An illustration from The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901).

"Boy or Girl?"  An illustration from John Dough and the Cherub by L Frank Baum (1906).

Upon his arrival in hell, fresh off the Styx Ferry, the soul of a reporter is accosted by demons full of inane questions.  "How do you like Hades?  Did you have a pleasant voyage?  What do they think of us on earth?  How do you like the climate?  Is this your first visit?  Are you going to stay long?"  From Puck, 1907.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.  Speaking of which, one of the many things we admire about our British brethren is that they've long been consciously aware that they've slipped down the rabbit hole.  So very few nations realize they're in Wonderland.

Fifty-one years before one of the all-time great fads of college kids cramming themselves into telephone booths, people "launched themselves in a body at ... unfortunate telephone[s]," as we see in The Windsor Magazine, 1908.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "Hello, ol' Never Sleep, that you?"

"How an Eagle Carried Off the Baby": an illustration from a 1900 issue of Wide World magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Metropolitan magazine.