From International Studio, 1920.

"I'll let you feel my foot if you don't look out," from Home-Theatricals Made Easy, or, Busy, Happy, and Merry by Frances Elizabeth Callow, 1891.

What strikes us about this item from The Wide World Magazine (1908) is where, exactly, the mysterious figure in question suddenly disappeared.  Note that two locations are mentioned:

1. "Denver, Colorado"
2. "Denver (Colorado)"

How many people — dozens, hundreds, or dare we suggest thousands? — have suddenly disappeared in "Denver (Colorado)"?

Our very serious advice: Do not enter parenthetical locations frivolously.  Neither a trail of breadcrumbs nor GPS software will be of any service.

An illustration from an 1879 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "He grew into a fashion of dropping his pen, or holding it idly in his fingers, and picturing dreamily sketches not written out for mortal ken, but only for his heart's comfort."

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "In a great illumination of the spirit he trembled and was astonished."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "He seemed to be whirled away."

An illustration from a 1913 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Fairy Princess, last night I was a goldfish: to-night I am an enchanted lover."