From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."

What a lie that we have equal work and play time.  The typical 8 to 5 workday is 9 hours, and that doesn't include time to get ready or commute.  Nor does it acknowledge that some (many) people need more than 8 hours of sleep.  It's all an ugly lie.  Also, if every day is a giant pie, no wonder so many folks stuggle with weight management.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

Reblog if you, too, have had to hide yourself within the food you were gorging upon.  "A piece of Harry's large picture."  From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.  The text reads, "But while I was eating still with undiminished relish, I heard that somebody was at the door.  In the perplexity of the moment I did not know where to conceal myself, when, fortunately or unfortunately, I jumped into the large hole which I had cut into the pie, squatted down, and shut the lid over my head."