"I am oppressed and extinguished."  From The Poet at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes and illustrated by H. M. Brock, 1902.

"Lifting wine glasses counts as exercise" quips celebrated humorist Elaine Ambrose, and she was hardly even joking.  Here's a precurosr to her insight, from Le Courrier Français, 1907.

While he laughed, she sank into a sea of sofa-cushions, in a swoon of anguish.  From Judge's Library, 1904.

Here's a precursor to today's facial recognition and other privacy-shattering profiling techniques.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.

Here's a precursor to Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

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"Explained the wonders of the moon to her."  From The Poet at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes and illustrated by H. M. Brock, 1902.

From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.

From Good Housekeeping, 1908.

What's the only continuous vaudeville?  Cupid's Punch & Judy show.  From Judge's Library, 1907.