The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-21
eGYP" ONCE MORE
THE PARIS FAD.
The Popular and Pretty Novelist Has
History as Fascinating as Her
Plots.

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! The English friends of Gyp, the
writer, are unkind enough to say that
she is seeking notoriety; and one of
the London papers asks what Gyp will
do next.
A few weeks ago this lady, who is
| one of the show figures of Paris was
kidnapped. Her experiences were
! strange, even startling; and when she
at last found herself near her own
home she succeeded in reaching her
doorstep, but no more. For days she
was ill.
Gyp insists that she was actually
carried away, and now the police of
Paris are busy finding her abductOrs.
! Part of each day is spent going from
station to station looking for the people
who abducted her; and at night Gyp
returns to her home completely ex-
hausted from the search. Both she and
her husband are intensely interested
in the matter.
1t is just fifty years since Sibylle
Gabrielle Marie Antoinette de Mira
beau was born in Paris of very distin~
guished parents. Her father was a SOL
der and was killed in the battle of
Montana.
Gyp. which is a contraction of Ga
brielle. was a precOcious child from her
earliest years. She talked sooner than
other children, sang well at d very
tender age, and at 10 was a show pupil
in school
Her parents had ideas for her private
education, and in continental fashion,
she was educated largely at home She
began early to write, and when at 10
she married the Count Martel de Jan
vile, loud were the lamentations of her
people who feared that she would for
sake the brilliant path opened up to
her by her talents.
But Gyp did not stop her onward
progress. She Immediately began to
write stories for the magazines: she
published a novel; she dramatized
small works and soon gained a noto-
riety which, later, became popular.
Today no woman is as we'll beloved
in Paris as Gyp, yet it is said her &c
centricities are very pronounced. She
does things which no other woman
dares to do. She goes into the street
at all hours of the night and day. she
frequents all kinds of resorts, high
class and low she makes friends with
all kinds of people and she dresses in
a singular way.
But, in spite of that, Gyp is we'll
loved. She is extremely generous and
gives away a. large portion of the
money which she earns in writing
novels. The count, her husband, is very
rich, and it is dearest delight to in
dulge his wife in every little elegance;
therefore. no woman has the pin
money of Gyp and no woman is as ever
ready when the subscription books are
passed around.
When Gyp was a young girl she was
noted for her good looks. She has now
ripened into actual beauty. Slender,
extremely graceful, and of the car
riage known as willowy, no woman has
more pronounced physical attractions
than this French woman. She is gen !
orally called a great beauty, and it is
only when you examine her singular
features closely that you see that they
are not classically correct.
The countess has a lovely home in |
the suburbs of Paris where she spends |
most of her time. When she is not |
there, she is at her town house; and |
it is during these visits that Parisians
get a good view of her.
Each morning early you will see Gyp !
in the Bots riding horseback Some |
days her habit is dark, the regulation |
cut. Other mornings she dresses in |
pure white with not a particle of color, |
from her white sailor hat to the tips |
of her little white canvas riding shoes. |
Gyp delights in doing things that |
make people talk, so it is said, but the !
Parisians love her and the gossip is |
not of the malicious type.
A picture of her adorned the spring |
salon. Gyp was immensely proud of |
it and took a large party of people !
there to see it every day.