Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — Gibson’s Definition of “Lady.” [ARTICLE]

Gibson’s Definition of “Lady.”

“I dined with Charles Dana Gibson at Princess’ restaurant in London during the season,” said a Chfcagoan to a Philadelphia Bulletin writer. “The lofty, spacious dining room was filled with women in pale gowns, their hair uncovered and their arms and necks bare, and though these women were fashionable and aristocratic they smoked cigarettes with their coffee as they watched the bioscope pictures that went on at one end of the big room, and as they listened to the singing that went on at the other. “Amid all this feminine -smoking we Airiericans begun to discuss and to define the word ‘lady.’ Was it ladylike to smoke? we asked. Would a lady ever smoke? What was a lady? “I think Mr. Gibson’s definition of a lady was the best that was given. “ ‘A lady,’ he said, ignoring the smoke question altogether, ‘is a woman who always remembers others and never forgets herself.’ ”