Mamma's Angel Child Frightens Cousin Prentiss

A Sunday comic strip following a mischievous child who pranks her visiting cousin. Across six panels, the protagonist progresses from innocent greeting to increasingly elaborate tricks—scaling a tree, hiding in bushes, and staging surprises—while her exasperated cousin reacts with growing alarm. The strip employs the visual conventions codified by newspaper comics in the 1900s: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and recurring characters in domestic situations. The humor relies on slapstick escalation and character type—the "angel child" of the title being anything but angelic. Such Sunday pages were foundational to American comics, establishing panel layout, timing through sequence, and the episodic gag structure that would define the medium.