The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-21
GIBSON'S BRAND-NEW GIRL.
MAY BE NAMED AFTER 'HTHE DANA
PEOPLE" OR "NANNIE."

VIII Pose For Gibson in His Future
Pictures-IIIumines the Life Build
ing With Her Smiles and Has Been
Drawn in Black and White-Its
Mother Has the Finest Singing
Voice OF the Stage.
Copyright, 1897.
New York, Feb. 19-Gibson has a new
girl.
This is precisely what might have been
expected when you sit down to think
about 1t.
Charles Dana Gibson and Irene Lang
horne, the former the creator of "the girl
In current art and the latter one of the
finest women of Virginia, were married in
Baltimore two years or so ago.
Since that event the much watched
couple have been living very quietly in
New York entering into the artistic and
social life of the city, vet so incognito,
you might say, that few know where to
find them. Their biographies are written
often, but the two most concerned enter
little into the sketches that are printed of
them, these being little more than enco-
miums upon the art of the one and upon
the beauty of the other, with the actual
facts left out.
lies. in the Life building.
The Gibson girl came along the first
week in February. She is quite different
from her previous types, and on looking
over Mr.. Gibson S work you are struck by
the fact that he, an artist of such wide IL
Illustrative range, should nave drawn so
for drawing those nearest him, he will I'M
doubtedly place the girl in his next
sketches.
is one of the most attractive women, not
only of the south, but of the world. Her
figure is her distinguishing characteristic
until you know her. Then her talents
enchain you. She is very tall, almost as
tall as her big reed-like husband, yet
magnifcently proportioned. "She is one
of the biggest women | ever saw-yet she
isn't stout after ALL" said girl admirer,
trying to describe the full graceful figure,
which is the despair of those who would
copy her. In features Mrs. Gibson also
"favors'' the blonde type, IL is not to be
wondered at that young Miss Gibson is
also blonde-and curly.
The name which Gibson will give his
girl is not yet known. She is a new
conner, 20 pe sure, but she may receive an
oId-fashioned name. THE Gibsons are
so fond of the old Dana people-meaning
the venerable Mr.. and Mrs Charles A.
Dana-that they will name the baby after
old Mrs. DANA" wrote a relative of the
family on the baby girl announcement
But there are others besides "the old
Danas" after whom the Gibson girl might
be named. Mrs. Gibson is one of six
brothers and sisters who live near Char
lottesville, Va, upon grand old family
plantation. There are Mrs. Parkinson,
Miss Phyllis Langhorne, and MISS Mamie
Langhorne, and the boys are Harry and
The grandmother's name Is Mamie"
so 1t is not impossible that Nannie-short
for the family name of Anna" held for
generations by the Gibson family-will be
bestowed upon the new girl
Few begin life with an inheritance the
equal of this Gibson girl. In dollars and
cents there might not be an extravagant
counting, although both the Gibson and
Langhorne families are well placed. The
SOUTH and the Gibsons are of a good,
aristocratc old family Of Concord, N. III.
But in the dover that fades not. that
cannot be given away and that viii not
stay hidden-the dover of inherited abil-
ity and talent-there is finer showing.
From her father the Gibson girl gets
an immense stock OF talent and a fine in
herited modesty. When Gibson began, in
1889 he had a fine way OF leaving his
sketches at newspaper offices ITO be ac-
cepted II agreeable. NO name was att
tached TO them, and after lying around
for few days waiting Tor an owner they
were thrown away: He never called to
zine-a comic one-saw merit in the line
pictures of those men and women and
used the pictures as fast as they came in
hoping meanwhile to find the author. one
day a long. lanky, soft-eyed lad called and
said: I'm Gibson, the fellow that draws
those girls. was afraid they were no
good don't you know, so | sent thsm with
out a name" With this modest in-the-
background opinion a little talent is
bound 90 add TO itself from its eyer-obser-
want meekness.
From her mother the Gibson girl gets
the constitution Of an athlete. Irene
Langhorne was the finest horsewoman in
Virginia. She could ride anything and
across anything She could also dance
dance out all the bellies OF Baltimore. But
she has another talent. that OF music. She
Is the owner of a magnificent voice that
could easily take her upon the stage in