Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-17
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

Iuc HuiHUcT 10 uOt large even III TdTlS
with its myriad painters, sculptors and
photographers, for it seems that duly en-
rolled they employ but GIL persons.
The largest representations are from
Belgium, England and America, while
Ireland which has furnished so many
eminent English painters with models of
its unique brunette beauty-of blue eyes,
black hair, and magnificent compilations
has but one lone exemplar in the studios
of Paris.
Out IF the whole number GIL there
are only 100 past the age of twenty-one,
leaving the majority between sixteen
and twenty-one. The statistics
give much odd information con-
corning these posing people-and
we are told that naturally the
dramatic profession furnishes the most
models, and the dress, making class next,
followed by flower girls, and the rest in
fewer numbers.
Now you will recall that last Sunday
we talked of new elevated sidewalk, and
the opportunity it afforded some persons
for showing off their strong points. The
chief inference is that almost everybody
is in the posing business for whatever re-
ward each sees in it for himself or her.
self Instead of the artist giving the re-
suit with cunning touch on canvas, and
allowing the gazer ample scope for the
imagination ever after, the unprofession-
al posing in the worlds circles is before
the observing scribe's eye with realism
which will not admit much sentiment.
The posing for matrimony is the most
common, and variety which comes I'M
der every-d day observation. This delight
full object takes on an endless range
of attitudes and expressions, ac-
cording to the susceptibility of the
victims. The posing may be aesthetic,
or the reverse; may be lavish in the DIS
play of physical charms, or niggardly;
may be exhibited in members according
to their attractiveness, but howsoever the
charm be presented it is done with the
emphasis of excessive self-rating, and
the full certainty of the answering weak
ness of admiration in the desired quarter.
Fore-knowledge of this weakness, or
judicious pertinacity of display are care
fully calculated In all such schemes of
conquest.
The posing of Miss - mentioned last
Sunday, with her chunks of feet in coarse
relief is memorable and never lets up long
enough for the rest which is the adjura-
ton of American life. The saying prob
ably owes It's origin to some such chronic
bore. l tell you those ever visible feet
are mark. Do you suppose she was
born feet foremost? At all events they
are fagrantly foremost now, and one can
only regret that their conspicuousness
can't be utilized in some way-say for
holding the corncakes to the fire, to bake
which are said never to be genuine with
out the toe-marks. But this is South
ern tradition Of negro life, and Miss -
for pedal beauty thinks she is entitled to
the cake without the process of baking it.
1t is to be hoped some intrepid male will
see her feet as she sees them. If he does
there is no danger of his ever being dis
illusiOned
Speaking of utilizing such conspicu.
GUS charms reminds one of Louis
XVIII.'s fondness for snuff And
how do you think he took
it? Why, his happiness was said to
consist in inhaling pinch of snuff from
the shoulders of Nine. du Cayla, which
were remarkably broad and fair
Beranger's song of "Octavie' embalms
his majesty's caprice for shouldering his
snuff.
Dickens calls Mrs. Merdle in Little
Dorrit'' the Bosom quite as often as by
her name, because one nice looking hand
always posed suggestively on it, and, in
every reference to the lady you are given
to understand that never did she forget
her all embracing desire for that homage
that she believed she was especially Gre
ated to inspire.
1t is the crochet of more people than
Mrs. Merdle, and they are not going to
have you forget it if posing is the re-
hinder
Why, puts in Mrs. Harris, Americans
are much more given to posing of
the sentimental sort than the
French are, and may be 1t is
unfeeling in me to say so. but 'pon my
word there is good deal of posing in
the White house now a-days, and a good
deal of sentimental gush which it were
better to omit, in the interest of national
dignity, if there is such thing.
Are family affections and conjugal de-
votion so rare in high places that we
must needs glorify this stricken family as
exceptional in the everyday feelings of
humanity And what dreary bosh has
been permitted officially, too
1t is the precipitation of the whole
thing from the abuse of the campaign to
the slavering of such murderous episode
as this
Still continues the candid woman. the
dear American people must pose in
characteristic way, too, at the beck of our
pestiferous egotist and toady, and make