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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Social Ladder - Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson - -Author: Charles Dana Gibson - -Release Date: April 08, 2021 [eBook #65026] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at - http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - available at The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SOCIAL LADDER *** - - - - - THE SOCIAL LADDER - - _Drawings by_ - CHARLES DANA GIBSON - - [Illustration] - - _New York_: R. H. RUSSELL - _London_: JOHN LANE - 1902 - -This 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 - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE SOCIAL LADDER] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -AN IMITATION OF THE LADY OF THE HOUSE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: MRS. STEELE POOLE’S HOUSEWARMING. - -_She_: “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LOVE.” - -“I DON’T, EH? HAVEN’T I BEEN TO EVERY PLAY, READ EVERY POPULAR NOVEL IN -THE LAST SIX MONTHS, GOT INTO DEBT HOPELESSLY, HAD MY APPENDIX REMOVED, -AND ALL FOR YOUR SAKE?”] - -[Illustration: 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.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: HIS REVENGE. - -_Time: Any morning at 4:15._ - -MR. MEEKER, HAVING BEEN KEPT UP LATE FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS AND -REBUKED FOR HIS LACK OF INTEREST, DEVELOPS A SUDDEN ENTHUSIASM. MRS. -MEEKER AND THE GIRLS NOW DO THE WAITING.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -AT A DRAMATIC AGENCY.] - -[Illustration: THE SONG OF THE DÉBUTANTE. - -“MOTHER, DEAR MOTHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW.”] - -[Illustration: THE TROUBLES OF THE RICH. - -AT THE LAST MOMENT, SEVERAL WHO WERE INVITED SEND THEIR REGRETS.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE STORY OF HIS LIFE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE HEIRESS. - - SHE CANNOT TALK, SHE CANNOT SING, - SHE LOOKS A FRIGHT; BUT FOLKS AVER - TEN MILLIONS HAVE BEEN SET APART - TO TALK AND SING AND LOOK FOR HER.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: MR. GRUBBS WALKS IN HIS SLEEP AND APPEARS FOR THE FIRST -AND ONLY TIME AT AN ENTERTAINMENT IN HIS OWN HOUSE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: WHY NOT - -HAVE PLATE GLASS FRONTS TO THE OPERA BOXES? THE OCCUPANTS COULD STILL BE -SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: 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.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: ADVICE TO A HOSTESS. - -KEEP YOUR ENTERTAINMENT WITHIN THE MENTAL GRASP OF YOUR GUESTS.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: MODERN CELEBRITIES. - -AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE AUTHOR OF “THE BARRENNESS OF -UNKISSED KISSES” AND A FAMOUS DRAMATIST.] - -[Illustration: WASTED ENERGY. - -_Professor Bung_: A BEAUTY? WELL, PERHAPS SHE IS. - -_Mr. Rattles_: WHY, MAN, HAVEN’T YOU NOTICED THE DIVINE WAY SHE SMILES? - -“OH, I’M NOT ALTOGETHER UNOBSERVANT. I HAVE MADE A CALCULATION, IN FACT, -THAT THE ENERGY EXPENDED ON HER SMILES, IF SCIENTIFICALLY APPLIED, WOULD -RUN AN AUTOMOBILE.”] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -SHOWING THAT A MAN MAY BE A HERO IN HIS OWN HOUSE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: PARASITES. - -BASKING IN THE GOLDEN SUNSHINE.] - -[Illustration: OF COURSE THERE ARE MERMAIDS.] - -[Illustration: PLENTY OF GOOD FISH IN THE SEA.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: A SUGGESTION. - -FOR ILL-ASSORTED PAIRS.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: MRS. KATCHAM PRIDES HERSELF ON ALWAYS HAVING THE LATEST -CELEBRITY AT HER HOUSE. TO-NIGHT IT IS NO LESS A PERSONAGE THAN -“GOUGER.”] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -WHILE UNCLE JOE HAS HIS TIE FIXED.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: A CROOKED TALE. - - THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN, - 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.] - -[Illustration: _He_: YOU PROMISED TO BE MY PUPIL AND LEARN TO LOVE ME. - -“BUT IT MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOUR HEART ISN’T IN YOUR WORK.”] - -[Illustration: THE AMBITIOUS MOTHER AND THE OBLIGING CLERGYMAN.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: FROZEN.] - -[Illustration: WHERE IGNORANCE, ETC. - -“WHERE DID YOU GO ON YOUR WEDDING TRIP?” - -“THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN WONDERING.”] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -WHILE A SPANISH-AMERICAN HERO DESCRIBES THE HORRORS OF WAR.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.] - -[Illustration: 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.] - -[Illustration: ANOTHER MOTH.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE ENTHUSIAST WHO INSISTS UPON SHOWING YOU HIS ESTATE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: STUDY IN EXPRESSION. - -WHILE THE HOSTESS WHISPERS TO JONES, “REMEMBER, NOW, WE ARE COUNTING ON -YOU TO MAKE US LAUGH.”] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: ONE OF THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING IN LOVE WITH AN -ATHLETIC GIRL.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: PILLSBURY DOES NOT CARE FOR SOCIETY, BUT HIS WIFE WILL -NOT GO WITHOUT HIM.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: WHY SOME CHILDREN DIDN’T GET THEIR PRESENTS.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: ALAS! THE VOICE OF HIS FIANCÉE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: STUDIES IN EXPRESSION. - -THE AUTHOR AND THE SOUBRETTE.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: THE HALF ORPHAN. - -“MAMMA WILL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE.”] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: “UNLUCKY AT CARDS, LUCKY IN LOVE.”] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: WHEN A MAN’S IN LOVE.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SOCIAL LADDER *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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