Reblog if you've ever required a really big bar of soap.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

The very latest fashion in walking sticks.  From Illustrated World, 1920.

One of our favorite early theories concerning the North Pole is the guardian bear/cat of the great spoon.  From Jugend, 1924.

We get goosebumps and are filled with a humbling sense of wonder no matter how many times we witness the miracle of the birth of an Easter egg.  This is a special illustration because it also shows the magic hat from which the bunny appeared.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.

Not everyone realizes that there are two rivers Styx and that they cross each other.  Also, not everyone knows that you can get vermouth made with water from the underworld.  It's all revealed in Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

A detail from a Harry Clarke illustration for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1923.

"In mighty cosmic rages."  Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.

From Mocca, 1929.

"In a forked glen into which he slipped at night-fall he was surrounded by giant toads."  From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.

From a jeweler's ad c. 1920.

Rock beats scissors.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.   See the Zen version of Rock-Paper-Scissors: Moon-Fish-Ocean.

"When ether waves run wild and humor fills the ozone."  From The Wireless Age, 1922.

We now take wireless communication for granted, but there was a day when tiny telephone poles connected interoffice calls.  From The Judge, 1922.