Mrs. Wiggs Rents a Cottage for the Summer: All the Comforts of Home

Gibson stages a comic collision of social classes on a modest stone cottage's front path. At center, a hatted young man in striped trousers bows toward a well-dressed woman seated on the stoop — the Gibson Girl in her summer hat, poised and serene. Behind them, a stout landlord loiters in the doorway amid bottles and clutter. To the left, ghostly feminine figures float above the shrubbery, suggesting the romantic fantasies the woman entertains about the rental. At right, a hunched figure examines something near a fence post. The joke cuts at middle-class aspirations: the 'all the comforts of home' tagline is ironic — the cottage is cramped and provincial, yet the heroine performs her social rituals undaunted. Typical of Gibson's gently mocking chronicle of American summer-resort culture.