Show the name Is familiar BY B and ELMO SCOTT WATSON gibson girl A 4 LL the miss americas not withstanding and in spite of all the so called american sweethearts past and present there has been only one truly american girl the gibson girl she was tall reserved and overdressed over dressed but for more than 20 years she was the idol of Ar america admired by the men and imitated by the women the gibson girl was sometimes athletic sometimes shy and f sometimes regal but always she was pure she sat in the back ol of rowboats a parasol over her shoulder she rode horseback side saddle of course she played C D gibson croquet without 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 1867 he became one of americas greatest illustrators tra tors he made his first sale at 19 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 widely known as any throughout the world kaiser wilhelm il II was a gibson girl fan the czar of russia had a collection of her pictures and the drawings were popular in alaska and tokyo A man by the name of gibson created a girl more popular than the cleopatra of yesterday or the ann sheridan of today and when a girl who exist has more oomph domph than those two ashes really got something a a a bessemer steel aall A who knows akyi anything at all about steel has heard odthe 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 broj entile but the cast iron in the guns was not strong enough to withstand the more powerful explosion that was necessary in paris he was able to make a stronger cast iron then he succeeded in producing steel patenting the sir II 11 bessemer process in 1855 it consists of burning out the carbon and other impurities in 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 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 annie oakless Oakley Oak leys 3 IN THE show business all passes for free tickets are known know n as annie oakless Oak leys the reason for calling them that is vague but the personality sona lity of the original annie oakley 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 r known as little litile sure shot annie oakley used to perform feats of marksmanship 4 with the pistol and rifle in buffalo bills wild west show one of the many versions of how tree free tickets came to be known as annie oakless Oak leys is as follows annie 0 oakley k ey before e her performances she used to appear outside the tent toss a pack of cards into the air and shoot at them anyone who was able to survive the scramble and obtain a card with a bullet hole in it was given a tree free admission to the 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 by western newspaper union |