GIBSON NEW CARTOONS GIBSON NEW CARTOONS A BOOK OF CHARLES DANA GIBSON’S LATEST DRAWINGS [Illustration: SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA] CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK 1916 Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, by Life Publishing Company Published October, 1916 Thanks are due to the publishers of LIFE for their courtesy in allowing the publication of Mr. Gibson’s drawings in this book. [Illustration: A GIRL IN TIPPERARY “My heart’s right there.”] [Illustration: “Three hundred dollars for that gown! Didn’t you get anything off?” “All I dared.”] [Illustration: _He_: Who is that tramping around overhead? _She_: Oh, that’s only papa. He always gets restless towards morning.] [Illustration: _Little Sister_: A widow? What’s a widow? _Big Sister_: A lady what’s had a husband and is goin’ to have another.] [Illustration: _He_: It’s perfectly awful the way you continue to flirt with your old sweethearts. I don’t believe you love me any more. And yet, before we were married, you told me I was a man of a thousand. _She_: So you were, my dear, so you were. But I can’t entirely forget the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.] [Illustration: _He_: We have had a terrible scrap. “And I came out ahead.” “No. I did. You accepted my apology.”] [Illustration: WHEN GRANDPA THINKS OF HIS MOTHER] [Illustration: “Aren’t there a couple of young men in there with Clara?” “No, only one. There isn’t a sound.”] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: THE LATEST CRAZE] [Illustration: “That’s a fine dog you have there. What breed is it?” “Sh! Not so loud! He thinks he’s a bulldog.”] [Illustration: _Famous Actor_: Oh, yes, I’m married, but I always think it’s kind o’ tough on a girl that marries one of us travelin’ men. “Still, it might be worse. I suppose you’re away from home most of the time.”] [Illustration: A STORY FROM THE FRONT] [Illustration: OUT OF WORK] [Illustration: BOTANY IN THE BOWERY “Where did you get those flowers, little girl? Off a tree?” “No, sir.” “Off a bush?” “No, sir.” “Where?” “Off a lady.”] [Illustration: “Between me an’ you, Uncle Jasper, don’t you get awful tired of doin’ what you’re told? Don’t be scared to answer. I won’t give you away to Aunt Jane.”] [Illustration: EVERYMAN TO HIS TASTE] [Illustration: HER DANCE] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: ADVICE TO THE MENTALLY FEEBLE Keep out of politics.] [Illustration: ADVICE TO THE MENTALLY FEEBLE Keep the mouth closed.] [Illustration: ADVICE TO THE MENTALLY FEEBLE Never by any chance stay at home.] [Illustration: ADVICE TO THE MENTALLY FEEBLE By all means marry for a home.] [Illustration: ADVICE TO THE MENTALLY FEEBLE Go back to the stable as soon as possible.]