The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-28
e1BsoN,s BRAND NEW GIRL.
Illumines the Life Building With
Her Smiles.

Her Smiles.
Gibson has a new girl
The Gibson girl came along the first
week in February. She is quite differ
ent 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 illustrative range, should
have drawn so few babies. AS Mr..
Gibson is notorious for drawing those
nearest him, he will undoubtedly place
the girl in his next sketches
Mrs. Gibson, the mother OF the girl,
is one of the most attractive women,
not only of the south, but of the world
Her figure is her distinguishing charac-
teristic-until you know her. Then
her talents enchain you. She is very
tall, almost as tall as her big, reed
like husband yet magnificently proper
toned She is one of the biggest wo-
men l ever saw-yet she isn't stout
after ALL said a girl admirer, trying
to describe the full, graceful flgure,
which is the despair of those who
would copy her. In features Mrs. Glib
son is a blonde, and, as Mr.. Gibson
also ..favors'' the blonde type, it is
not to be wondered at that young Miss
Gibson is also a blonde-and curly.
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girl is not yet known. She is new
conner, to be sure. but she may re-
ceive an old-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 cards.
But there are others besides the old
90 Of fln
might be named. Mrs. Gibson is one OF
six brothers and sisters who live near
Charlottesville, Va, upon the grand old
family plantation. There are Mrs. Per-
kinson. Miss Phyllis Langhorne and
Miss Mamie Langhorne and the boys
are Harry and Keene.
The grandmother name is Mamie,
so it is not impossible that Mamie
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 dol
lars and cents there might not be an
eXtravagant counting. although both
the Gibson and Langhorne families are
well placed. The latter is among the
IF. F. VS." of the south, and the Glib
sons are of r good, aristccratic old
family Oh
But in the dover that fades not, that
cannot be given away, and that will
not stay hidden-the dover of in
herited ability and talent-there is a
finer showing.
From her father the Gibson girl
gets an immense stock of talent and a
fine inherited modesty. When Gibson
began, in 1889. ne had a fine way of
leaving his sketches at newspaper Of
fees Ito be accepted if agreeable
No name was attached to them, and
after lying around for a few days
waiting for an owner they were thrown
away. He never called to claim or
explain them. But one maganzine-a
comic one-saw merit in the line pic
lures 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.
you know, so / sent them without a
name" With this modest in-the- back
ground opinion a little talent is bound
to add to itself from it's -observant
meekness.
From her mother the Gibson girl
gets the constitution of an athlete
Irene Langhorne was the finest horse
woman in Virginia. She could ride
anything and across anything. She
could also dance, dance out all the
bellies of Baltimore. But she has an
the owner of magnificent voice that
could easily take her upon the stage
in opera, grand or otherwise. & 1t has a
marvellous range. is highly cultivated
and is probably the finest voice in the
world off the stage. She uses it fire.
quently, but only for charity, being
much in demand for benefit perform
ances and church musicales. She has
never sung for money, all the proceeds
being donated to the cause of good
works. Mr.. Gibson is very tenacious
of this voice, and, though he does not
object to slyly tucking his wifes
beautiful face in his pictures, he most
decidedly objects to loaning her voice
Mrs. Gibson, by the way, is only %
years old, though her powerful figure
her dignity and her beauty make her
seem older. Indeed, she has been taken
to be the senior of her husband. whose
birthdays began four years before her
own.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson are a singularly
loving couple. Since their marriage
Mrs. Gibson has, it is complained
given I'D her old friends for her hus-
bands, and at her mothers country
place in summer it is not her own
friends she entertains, but those whom
her husband has known for years
Last summer she had Richard Harding
Davis and his sister down at the plan
tation. The Gibson home in New York
is where Mr.. Gibson's work lies, in the
Life building.
The only inconvenient phase of the
new Gibson arrival is the confusion
which it will make in the theatrical
world. Gibson tableaux" are now the
rage. But the rehearsals will have to
begin all over again now, for the Glib
son baby cannot be left out.
Meanwhile the name of Schiller" sc
carefully embroidered upon a certain
coverlid-after Mrs. Gibson's father, a
veteran of the war-wilI have to be
turned towards the wall.