How Do They Do It?

This Sunday comic strip follows the marriage machinations of Major Corileigh, a prominent soldier and eligible bachelor pursued by numerous women. The strip's six panels employ sequential storytelling and speech balloons to track the characters' schemes and reactions—a visual vocabulary that newspapers had perfected by the 1910s. Comic strips of this era served as laboratories for the formal innovations that would define the medium: panel borders to control narrative flow, overlapping dialogue to convey simultaneous action, and recurring characters whose complications drive plot across multiple installments. The artist constructs humor through social observation, depicting the period's courtship rituals and competitive dynamics among women vying for an advantageous match.