The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-21
May be Named After "the Old Dana People or
"Nannie," Mrs. GibsOns Family Name.
WILL POSE FOR GIBSON IN HIS FUTURE PICTURES.
IIumneS the Life Building with Her Smiles and Has Been
Drawn in Black and White
ITS MOTHER HAS THE FINEST SINGING VOICE OFF The STA

ty and talcrt--there Is a finer showing.
From her father the Gibson girl gets
an immense stCrk Of talent and fine
inherited mOdcsty. When Gibson began,
in 1889 he had fine way Of leagintg his
sketches at news PAPER Offices TO be &C
Ccptcd II agreeable" no name was at
tachcd 10 them and after lying around
for few days waiting for an owner they
were thrown AMY. lilo never called 70
claim or explain them. But one maya
zine-a comic ouc-saw merit I'm tho line
Pictures Of those men and women. and
used the pictures as fast as they came In.
hoping meanwhile 10 find the author. one
day q long lanky, sOft-eyed lad called and
said. I'm Gibson, the fellow that draws
those girls. ] Vas afraid they wcre 90
good dOntt you know, so I sent them
without a name" With this modest IN
the-backgrOuud opinion a little talent IS
bound 10 aGd 10 Itself from It's ever-ob-
servant meckness.
From her mother the Gibson girl gets
the constitution OF an athlete. Irene
LanchCrne was the finest horGowOmaD In
Virginia. She could ride anything and
across anything She could also dance
dance cut all the bellies OF the South.
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 opera, grand or otherwise. II hos q
marvellous range. IS highly cultivated.
and SIS probably the finest voice I'm the
world off tho stage. She uses 10 frequent
ly but only fer charity. being much IN
demand for benefit performances and
church musicalcs She haa never sung
for money an the proceeds being donated
20 the cause OF good works. Mr.. Gibson
is very tenacious Of this voice. and. al
though he does not object TO siyly tuck
ing his wife beautiful face in DTS pic
lures. he most decidedly objects 20 loaning
her voice.
Mrs. Gibson. by the way, IS only TWEEN
fv-fVo years Old. though her powerful
figure. her dignity and her beauty make
her seem older Indeed sho has been
taken 10 Doe the senior OF her husband,
whose birthdays began four years before
her own.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson are a ~inpularly
loving couple. Ssce their marriage Mrs.
Gibson has. e IS complained. given up
her old friends for her husbands. and
at her mothers country place in summer
10 As not her own friends she cntertains.
but those whom her husband has known
for years. Last summon she had Richard
Harding Davis and his sister down 10
tho plantation.
So watched are tho Gibsons. and 90
c1gcrlv i7 every word road about them.
that last summer on ento~Drising part
crapher catching NJ insufficient straws.
wrote that the Gihsons have separated
and that Mrs Gibson has gone home"
A friend I'm tears went over 20 call at
tho LanehCrne home but found Mrs.
MY husband IS coming to-dav." cried the
enthusiastic young woman to-day. to-
day. He IS coming today"
"But I heard YOU had separated from
HIM" gaspcd the friend
$50 did-hut only because he was call
Cd back 20 draw q picture. on, Kitue"-
Crasping the Girl friend around the neck
'Tm so much IN love that I'm ashamed
O 1ysclf."