Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04
1H|IE SOUTHERN
GIRLS UP NORTH.
THH BEAUTIFUL LANGHORNE SIS
TIERS, AND HOW THEY HAVE
JARED IN BOSTON AND
NEW YORK.

JARED IN BOSTON AND
NEW YORK.
Three girls came riding up out of
the South!
That sounds too much like Kings
iey's sad SON of Three Fishers" And
this isn't a sad song at all, though it
must be admitted that men worked
for them and women wept at sight of
them.
But those three girls were beauti-
full!
Nobody knows, in the chronology OF
. properly introduced family, which is
the eldest. for, AFTER the introduction,
all are merged together in the general
classification of daughters that are
out" But there were Elizabeth. Irene,
Mamie and Phyllis. And they were
all Langhorne girls. of Albemarle
county, Virginia, and an ware the
prettyest types of pretty girls that the
North had seen in many day.
Mrs. Moncure Perkins never got
North. She married a Richmond man
and now lives there in belledom. But
Mamie" got as far toward the Pole as
Boston, where she was grabbed up into
matrimony by Mr. Robert Shaw, well
known in club and social circles at the
HUB
Everybody wondered why that ven
Grated artist, Charles Dana Gibson, in
sisted upon spending all his vacations
in the South, even his midsummer ones,
and everybody wondered where he got
his "girp' and whence came his wo-
manly ideal, anyway.
But it was all explained one day
when invitations were issued for a
Richmond wedding and when Mr..
Gibson, in blushing little note. asked
Richard Harding Davis and a few
other young men to go down and be
best men and ushers, etc. He was to
marry Irene Langhorne, the queenly
Southern beauty, the handsomest-the
most unqueenly handsome--girl of all
the beautiful South.
1t was whispered at that time that
Miss Langhorne had the tiniest foot
that ever trod the Blue Grass; that she
could not, in fact, walk much or far,
for those little feet. And it was known
that she had the tallest, most COM
mandfng figure seen in many a day.
With tiny tapering waist, full figure,
splendid length from the hips down,
she made an ideal model, though it
is doubtful if she ever posed, and
with that face and hair and voice she
became simply irresistible as COM
panion. Yes, Gibson was in luck. His
friends declared that with Miss Lang
horne as home model, for life, he
ought to go on and on improving,
world without end-and subsequent
events proved the prophecy correct to
date.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson came
North it}was discovered that Mrs. Glib
son could sing. New York is SO
crowded that there isn't room for field
sports, btit this girl who could ride
like ce1taur could sing like Melba;
and SOON there were offers to go on
the STAGE to sing in public, to appear
at any time and place. But Mrs. Glib
son refused them all. Her husband
had no idea of losing his domestic star
TO the Metropolitan management, and
for awhile, Mrs. Gibson refused to sing
at all outs Tide her own home. She so
hated not0(iety.
southern 9i1ls have one popularity If
you have 81 died them you have noticed
It, Before Marriage they are the worst
hirts in the universe. When you tax them
with it they will laugh and tell you that a
girl must have somebody to fall back up
on. And they will even strive on this frail
ground to excuse the fact that they have
engaged thenlfelves to marry two persons,
one in the frpzen North and one in the
sunny South. 1T will all turn out right
they will tell you.
That is they Southern girl before mar
rage.
But once catch your bird and put her in
a cage and it Isl different. Suddenly from
a Maynard thing she turns into a model
of domesticity. {Such devoted wives as the
girls of the South make were never seen
elsewhere. Flir9ations, and all but naugh-