Show 94 the name BY FELIX B and ELMO SCOTT WATSON gibson girl ara A LL tho the miss americas Amerl cas not ax withstanding and in spite of all the so called american sweethearts past and present there has been only ono one truly american girl the gibson girl she was tall reserved and overdressed over dressed but for more than 20 years she war wac the idol of america admired by the men and imitated by the women the gibson girl was sometimes athletic sometimes shy and sometimes regal but always she was pure sho she sat in the back of rowboats a parasol over her shoulder she rodo horseback R side saddle of course she played croquet without C u D gibson stooping and who was the real miss gibson nobody but an imaginary creature of charles dana gibson the artist who drew her born at roxbury mass in 1807 he became one of americas greatest illustrators ile he made his first sale at 19 10 to life magazine and was still a young man when colliers ordered drawings from him at 1000 each the name of gibson through his creation of another person was as w widely idely known as any throughout the world kaiser wilhelm il II was a gibson girl fan tho the czar of russia lad had a collection of her pictures and the drawings were popular in alaska and tokyo A man by the n name ame of gibson created a girl more popular than the cleopatra of yesterday or the ann am sheridan of today and when a girl who exist has more oomph domph than han those two ashes really got something bessemer steel aau A who knows anything at ax all about steel has heard of the bessemer process for making it but hardly anyone knows about sir henry bessemer he invented the process of converting cast iron into tough steel he was an english engineer born in 1813 during the crimean war he wanted to perfect a cannon that would fire a spinning projectile but the cast iron in the guns was not trong strong enough to withstand the more powerful explosion that was waa necessary in parts paris he was able to make a strong or er cast iron then he succeeded in producing steel patenting the sir sir 11 II bessemer process in 1855 it consists of burning out the carbon and other I 1 impurities m puri ties by blasting air through the molten metal a process still in use today sir henry was a prolific inventor he was the first to compress graphite into a solid mass so that lead pencils could be made one of his first inventions was a method of impressing the government seal on papers so it could not be forged the royal government promptly stole his patent without any attempt at recompense being a young unknown unan own he did nothing about it but later in life he made a vigorous protest and the government apologized for its misdeed and made him a knight to quiet him a reason as good as many others for bestowing the title of sir upon an englishman 0 0 14 annie oakless Oakley Oak leys 3 N THE show business all passes I 1 IN for free frea tickets are known as annie Oak oakless leys the reason for calling them that is vague but the personality s sona lity of the original annie oak ley tor for whom they are named is not she was americas greatest markswoman and americas sweetheart too long before shirley temple or even mary pickford won that title known as little 3 sure shot annie oakley oaklay used to perform 4 t marksmanship feats of with the pistol and rifle in B buffalo bills wild west show one of the many versions of how tree free tickets came to bo be known as annie oakless Oakl Oak leys cys is as follows annie oak oakley before her performances she used to appear outside the tent toss a pack of cards carda into the air and shoot at them anyone who was able to survive the scramble and ob tain a card with a bullet hole in it was given a free admission to the tha show just an ordinary playing card would not admit you it had to have a bullet hole in it in other words it had to be an annie oakley released Ite ne leased by western newspaper union |