Polly Evans' Story Page for Boys and Girls

This Sunday newspaper page collects six distinct comic narratives—*A King's Little Playmates*, *Drummer of the Blues*, *Sable*, *Our Bean Cake Queen*, *Horse Race on Table*, and *Sister Jane's New Hat*—each told through sequential panels with speech balloons and illustrated action. The layout exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper practice: multiple self-contained stories sharing a single page, varying in tone from domestic comedy to adventure, rendered in pen-and-ink illustration. The page demonstrates the visual conventions emerging from newspaper comics—panel borders, caption boxes, expressive figure drawing—that would become the foundation of comic book grammar. Published during the medium's formative years, such pages were the primary venue for sequential narrative art before the comic book anthology format emerged in the 1930s.