The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Social Ladder
Title: The Social Ladder
Author: Charles Dana Gibson
Release date: April 8, 2021 [eBook #65026]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
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THE SOCIAL LADDER
Drawings by
CHARLES DANA GIBSON
New York: R. H. RUSSELL
London: JOHN LANE
1902
his is the seventh book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson’s published drawings, consisting of:
| DRAWINGS BY C. D. GIBSON | No. 1 |
| PICTURES OF PEOPLE | No. 2 |
| SKETCHES AND CARTOONS | No. 3 |
| THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP | No. 4 |
| AMERICANS | No. 5 |
| A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDS | No. 6 |
| THE SOCIAL LADDER | No. 7 |
Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson’s best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding. Thanks are due Messrs. Mitchell & Miller for their co-operation in making this volume as representative and complete as possible.
Copyright by Mitchell & Miller
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL
THIS book is published in Great Britain by especial arrangement with Mr. James Henderson, the proprietor of the English copyright of some of the drawings.
Printed in the United States of America, in July, 1902
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
Mr. Meeker doesn’t object so much to his wife’s entertainments as he does to the way she uses his room for the gentlemen’s things.
THE HEIRESS.
She looks a fright; but folks aver
Ten millions have been set apart
To talk and sing and look for her.
Mr. Grubbs walks in his sleep and appears for the first and only time at an entertainment in his own house.
WHY NOT
have plate glass fronts to the opera boxes? The occupants could still be seen, but not heard.
THE NEXT MORNING
Mrs. Innittor Dedd’s maid reads: “Among those present was Mrs. Innittor Dedd, whose lovely face and splendid figure were enhanced by a tiara of diamonds and three ropes of pearls. She wore her famous rubies and was even more regal than at the Bullyon’s ball the night before,” ETC., ETC.
MODERN CELEBRITIES.
An interesting discussion between the author of “The Barrenness of Unkissed Kisses” and a famous dramatist.
Mrs. Katcham prides herself on always having the latest celebrity at her house. To-night it is no less a personage than “Gouger.”
A CROOKED TALE.
Who made a crooked deal,
And got a crooked fortune
By a very crooked steal;
He had a crooked wife,
With a very crooked name,
And now they live apart
In very crooked fame.
THE BROKER RINGS UP HIS GIRL.
“Hello! Hello! Big strike in Consolidated Catamount—can marry—want three days’ option hand and heart.”
She: Will give refusal.
STUDY IN EXPRESSION.
While the hostess whispers to Jones, “Remember, now, we are counting on you to make us laugh.”