Show the na name ibe Familiar Is afa M aliar IBY BY FEUX FELIX 3 and ELMO SCOTT WATSO N gibson girl A LL the miss americas not ALL L withstanding and in spite ol of all the so bo called Arhe rican 0 sweet hearts past pait andere and present nt th there ere has been on only lyone one truly american girl the gibson girl she was tall reserved and overdressed over dressed but for or more than 20 years she was the idol ot of americ America a admired by bi thi the men and amita imitated ted by the women the gibson girl was sometimes ines a athletic th letic sometimes shy and sometimes regal but always she tz was pure pre she sat at in the back of rowboats a parasol over her shoulder she rode horseback side ida saddle ot of co course she played without c U cut I 1 ut toson gibson croquet r stooping and who was the real miss gibson nobody but an imaginary creature of charles dana gibson the artist who drew her born at Roy roxbury bury mass in 1887 he became one of americas greatest illustrators he made his first farst sale at 19 10 to lite life magazine and was still a young man when colliers ordered draw drawings lAgs from hini him at 1000 each the name of gibson through his creation of another person was as w widely known as any throughout the world kaiser wilhelm II 11 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 cl cleopatra of yesterday or theann the ann sheridan of today and when a girl who exist has more oomph domph wan than those two ashes really got something |