From St. Nicholas magzine, 1910. The caption reads, “A strange-looking, cloaked figure, with a lighted jack-o’-lantern for a head, ushered them into the drawing-room.”
It’s been said that “skeletons symbolize everyone’s condition in the world, where we are all left abandoned and starving, longing desperately for union with and nourishment from heaven and earth”: see my skeletons gallery.
