Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — ARTIST GIBSON’S ROMANCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARTIST GIBSON’S ROMANCE.

Strange Meeting with the Womu Whom He Made His Wife. With the marriage in Richmond, Va., »£ Artist Charles Dana Gibson with Miss Irene Lnnghorne, one of those romances that seem to properly belong to those stories beginning “Once upon a time a beautiful princess,” etc., came to a happy conclusion. Ten years ago Gibson persuaded the humorous paper, Life, to pay him $2 for a drawing. That was in New York. What Life wanted at that time was pretty girls, and pretty girls were what Mr. Gibson was simply yearning to draw. Little by little a young lady, first known ns the “American girl,” and subsequently as the “Gibson girl,”' began to be a well-known figure in prominent weekly and monthly magazines. When asked, as he often was, who this beautiful unknown was, Mr. Gibson used to laugh and say she was a dream. Mr. Gibson used to believe that his unknown beauty did not exist, but none the less,

Pygmalion-like, he worshiped his own creation. Just a year ago at the horse show Mr. Gibson came very near having a paralytic stroke, for, as he was turning the corner by the boxes he almost ran into the living, breathing reality of his artistic vision. It was Miss Laughorne, a Virginia belle. An introduction followed and Mr. Gibson prosecuted his suit ardently and successfully. Herman Stratman, a shanty-boat hermit, Was found dead beside the railroad track at Zanesville, Ohio. He had been run down by a night train and had bled< to death with no one near.

MISS IRENE LANGHORNE, NOW “GIBSON’S GIRL.”