Even the paintings don't like the cat music.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.  If you, too, would like to make others run away screaming, see How to Be Your Own Cat.

Portrait photographers rely on the "Smile for the Camera" angel.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.

You've heard the slogan, "Say it with flowers."  But did you know that with every flower you pick, you're forming a word?  How many flowers have died for unconsidered blathering?  From the High Point yearbook of 1971.

Reblog if you ever pretended to read a Spanish-English dictionary, just to shield yourself for a few moments.  From Susquehanna's 1979 yearbook.

"What has he done?  I cannot say.  We'll find out to-morrow, and beat him today."  A century later, this isn't a nonsense rhyme but the way our "justice" system works.  From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.

From the University of California's 1922 yearbook.

Wouldn't have posted this save for the fact that we've stayed at that very castle.  This guy out front is known as "the Harbinger."  He says things like, "The ancient ones see everything."  From Special Activities for Very Special Children, 1972.

If they'd told me "What to expect from the call" earlier, I woudln't have let the answering machine take it.  From the Clarion Call newspaper, 1970.

From the Lycoming yearbook of 1974.

From Zritel', 1908.