From A Prince of Darkness by Florence Warden, 1885.

An entire book of front matter than never technically gets to chapter one but which instead picks the locks of the great sercrets of the universe?  It's happening.  We previously noted how a reader has begun using our blank book Let's Do and Say We Didn't to create more of that blank book's front matter (along with some additional front matter from our book on Seance Parlor Feng Shui, too!)  This reader is turning the blank book into an entire book of front matter.  There has already been an alchemical transformation (black wet ink transmogrifying to dry blue pencil, so as to avoid bleed-through on the cheap paper that nothing is written on).  And this book of front matter is reading its own mind: page 14 accurately predicts what page 15 should have done better, before it even happens.

From Al'manakh, 1906.

You've seen the famous Life Magazine photo of the sailor kissing a nurse ("V-J Day in Times Square" by Alfred Eisenstaedt).  Here it is four decades earlier, from Lustige Blätter, 1904.  We're not sure if the lady with the stick hates public displays of affection or merely wants in on the action.  (This was Europe, after all.)