An illustration from a 1906 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The gods of the North were dancing beyond their walls of eternal ice."

My dream was cloudy.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "He laughed when he saw me."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Bob can neither sleep nor play, free from the intrusion of these spectral shoes."

"I am four hundred and three years of old to-day."  From Metropolitan Magazine, 1904.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Metropolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Metropolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1897 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "They rise upon me tattered and dog-bitten."

To readers who have ever juggled more than one book at a time, we present the Bibliofool, whom we found in Bibliophile magazine, 1908:

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Saturday Evening Post.

Dedicated to the Master of Masks, Jeff McBride.

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Silence, emptiness, and beside the bed, burning steadily, the lighted candle."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, for Navid Sinaki:

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The vicar prodded most of the them with his stick."

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Metropolitan magazine.

"The sooner you catch yourself in the act of building your mental snowball, the easier it is to stop."
—Richard Carlson, The Big Book of Small Stuff

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Metropolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Sports of All Nations:  'Cut your Neighbor' or 'Freeze the Blighter,' the popular pastime of England.  The players endeavor to outstare each other.  It is played in twosomes, foursomes and then some.  The player dropping his H is disqualified."