The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-25
Mrs. Gibson to Pose for
All of Her Husbands Drawings

The eastern papers have announced that
hereafter Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson will
pose for all of her husbands drawings.
This announcement, says a writer in
Philadelphia paper. was greeted with such
a degree of popular approval that it
showed at once the estimation in which
Mrs. Gibsons beauty is held by the whole
artistic world. There is scarcely a model
in New York who does not claim to have
been a Gibson model, but when all have
been discussed 1t is found that Gibson has
but one ideal model. and that is his wife.
AS Irene Langhorne. she went to New
Orleans the year of her debut and fasci-
mated the people of the Crescent City during
Mardi Gras. She had the triumph and at
the same time the modification of outshin-
ing the Queen of Comus, and her beauty
called forth a society column SO ardent
and lavish that her father, of Albermarle,
Va, wanted his daughter to come back
home. Later, Miss Langhorne led the
Patriarch's ball in New York, and before
the ball was over she received gracious
words from the grand danes of New
York city, who had criticised Ward Nc
Allister for going outside the metropolis
for BELLE In Richmond Miss Langhorne
was queen for two whole years of trium-
plant belleship. In the society play which
was the feature every year in Richmond,
she was the star One year she led the
"Saraband," and was felicitous Germaine
in "Chimes of Normandy" When Trilby
came out she out trilled the hypnotized
songstress and finished the evening with a
grand reception given in her honor. Then
h.
phur that Miss Langhorne and Mr.. Gibson
met for the first time, she indifferently and
he to fall in love at first sight.
The courtship was a devoted one on his
part, and finally at Mirador, the handsome
country seat of the Langhorne family IN
Virginia the engagement was announced.
Those who followed Mr.. Gibson's work at
this time, when his style was being mould
ed declare that Miss Langhornes face and
Miss Langhornes figure can be seen in all
the Gibson pictures. Certainly the most
unprejudiced can follow the splendid lines
which are her chiefest charm and can sea
the same magnificent pose of head and
chin. The Gibsons were married four years
ago, and Richard Harding Davis, who is the
artists most devoted friend was one of the
ushers. The wedding was attended by rep
resentative people from everywhere, and
the young couple started out in life show
cred with rice and good wishes. Charles
Dana Gibson was then 80 years old, and a
self-made man SO far as fortune was con-
cerned. He began by offering a certain
periodical a drawing for so cents 1t paid
him 81 for it. From that time he made
more money, and he is said now to receive
$25, 900 a year and to have amassed a l,th1-
some fortune. Coming from a state of
beautiful women, 1t was expected that
Mrs. Gibson would occupy a very con-
spicuous place in New York society. But
in true southern fashion she quoted down
after her marriage and devoted herself so
entirely to her husband and the apartments
over which she presided that the social
world saw little of her. The Gibsons keep
house on the top floor of the Life building,
where Mr.. Gibson has had his studio for
years. They do not care in the least for
society in it's restricted sense. Mrs Glib
sons two devoted friends are always with
her. They are the beautiful Mrs. Freddie
Gerhard and the exquisite Mrs. Archie
Peel One was Miss Morris, the other Miss
Price, of Baltimore. Miss May Handy, of
Richmond, is the other beauty who COM
pletes the friendly quartette. Mrs. Peel
care little for society, and let's her husband
do most of it, and Mrs. Gerhard cares moth
ing for it, The condition of mind Is very
astonishing with these three young ma
irons when one remembers what devotees
of society in its gayest sense they were, In
the north as we'll as the south.