An illustration from Home Theatricals made Easy, or, Busy, Happy, and Merry by Frances Elizabeth Callow (1891).  The caption reads: "Have you not a tongue, madam?"

An illustration from The Oxford Thackeray.  The caption reads: "Without his hat. ... In his comic hat."

An illustration from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum (1906).

"Honking Headgear": an illustration from a 1909 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Saturday Evening Post magazine.  The caption reads: "We both stared thoughtfully at the hat-rack."

An illustration from an 1866 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1892 issue of Punch magazine.

"There must be mirrors that reflect unwillingly."
—Stephen Sparks

The illustration is from an 1865 issue of Punch magazine.

A surrealist illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "A yawning chasm, to fall into which meant at least a broken neck."

Dedicated to Jordan Wright.

An illustration from a 1901 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The straw hat was the lodestar."

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "'My dear,' said my wife, 'I have it.  Let the hat make its own vacuum!'"

For Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

Older and older men are starting families, and when we see white-haired grandfatherly types out and about with their newborns, we can't help but to see classic archetypes at play: Father Time and Baby New Year.  Here they are as depicted in Life magazine, 1902: