Show GIBSONS BRAND NEW GIRL Illumines the Life Building With Her Smiles Gibson has a new girl The Gibson gIrl came along the first week in February She is quite different differ-ent from her previous types and on looking over Mr Gibsons 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 characteristic 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 proportioned propor-tioned She is one of the biggest women wo-men I ever sawyet she isnt stout after all said a girl admirer trying to describe the full graceful figure which is the despair of those who would copy Her In features Mrs Gibson Gib-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 blondeand curly The name which Gibson will give his girl is not yet known She is a newcomer new-comer to be sure but she may receive re-ceive an oldfashioned name The Gibsons are so fond of the old Dana peoplemeanIng the venerable Mr and Mrs Charles A Danathat 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 Danas after whom the Gibson girl might be named Mrs Gibson is one of six brothers and sisters who live near Charlotteville Va upon the grand old family plantation There are Mrs Per kinson Miss Phyllis Langhorne and Miss Nannie Langhorne and the boys are Harry and Keene The grandmothers name is Nannie so it is not impossible that Nannie short for the family name of Anna held for generations by the Gibson famIlywill be bestowed upon the new girlFew Few begin life with an inheritance the equal of this Gibson girl In dollars 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 I F F Vs of the south and the Gib sons are of a good aristocratic old family of Concord N H But in the dower that fades not that cannot be given away and that will not stay hiddenthe dower of inherited in-herited ability and talentthere is a finer showing From her father the Gibson girl I gets an immense stock of talent and a fine inherited modesty When Gibson began in 18S9 he had a fine way of leaving his sketches at newspaper offices of-fices to 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 comic onesaw merit in the line pictures pic-tures of those men and women and used the pictures as fast as they came in hoping meanwhile to find the I author One day a long lanky soft eyed lad called and said Im Gibson the fellow that draws those girls I was afraid they were no good dont you know so I sent them without a name With this modest Intheback ground opinion a little talent Is bound to add to itself from its everobservant meekness From her mother the Gibson girl I gets the constitution of an athlete Irene Langhorne was the finest horsewoman horse-woman in Virginia She could ride anything and across anything She could also dance dance out all the belles of Baltimore But she has another an-other talent that of music She is the owner of a magnificent voice that could easily take her upon the stage I in opera grand or otherwise It has a marvelous range is highly cultivated I and Is probably the finest voice in the world off the stage She uses it frequently fre-quently but only for charity being much in demand for benefit performances 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 25 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 singularjy loving couple Since their marriage Mrs Gibson has it is complained given up her old friends for her husbands 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 I Davis and his sister down at the plantation plan-tation The Gibson home in New York is where Mr Gibsons 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 Gibson Gib-son baby cannot be left out Meanwhile the name of Schiller so carefully mbroidered upon a certain joverlid after Mrs Gibsons father a veteran of the war will have to be turned towards the wall |