Scarlet fever and funny books

When I was seven years old, I had scarlet fever, and my bedroom was quarantined. I enjoyed the Sunday funny papers then...this was before they became comic books.

They were printed in 4 1/2 inch squares...big enough to read! There was "Jiggs and Maggie, Mutt and Jeff, Tillie the Toiler, and Katz and Jammer Kids."

I would cut all those squares out and put them together with yarn to make a book. Even my doctor, (who delivered me, and then 23 years later delivered my first daughter) would bring me his Sunday funnies. I may not have had any comic books, but I'll bet I had some of the first funny books.