People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — The Gibson Girl. [ARTICLE]

The Gibson Girl.

Every little while a discussion arises concerning the characteristics of the American girl, especially her characteristics as she is portrayed by the modern illustrator. New interest attaches to the subject just now, when it is currently reported that Charles Dana Gibson is hunting for a new Gibson girl. Of coarse everybody knows that his wife, who was Miss Irene Langhorne, has been his favorite model, but there are those who have tired of this one type, with her imperious bearing and French beauty, and these will not be sorry to hear that the illustrator is seeking another style to make famous. They are somewhat enrions, however, to see what type he will next portray, whether it will be the New England college girl, with her quick intellect and athletio ways, as he has seen her daring his summer vacation on the Massachusetts coast, or whether it will be the southern girl, with her clear olive skin and her languishing manners, or the frank Californian, with her rich complexion and her handsome, well developed figure.—Boston Globe.