Poor Little Income!

This six-panel strip follows a wife's attempts to hide her husband from creditors while managing household finances. The narrative unfolds through sequential action: she directs him to hide, checks various locations (behind a door, under furniture, in a box), discovers him missing, then reunites with him after a shopping trip. The comic employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper strips—panel borders, speech balloons, and recurring domestic characters—to build humor through physical comedy and the running gag of financial embarrassment. The wife's patterned dress and the husband's squat proportions became familiar character types in the dailies and Sunday pages that formed the foundation of American comic art.