The Russellville Democrat., 1881-06-09
Tight Fitting Clothes.
New York l. tier,


 Scratch a Russian and you will ind a Tartar," said Bonaparte. Scratch a fashionable girl, say I, and you will find her skin mighty close to the surface of her clothes. There is this spring such a snug fit to garments that, if her form does not, for the sake of shape, require overlaying, you couldn't use her for pin-cushion without her knowing 1t. She is aware, too, of the very buttons on the back of her dress skirt, for they leave their imprint on her delIcate per. son every time she sits on hard seat, Skirts are snort, wrists are bugging. and sleeves terminate just below the elbow, to be joined with very long gloves for the street. Never was a fashionahly- dressed girl more entramneled, if her clothes are not pinchingly tight, or more like trussed fowl if the contrary be true. About the only loose thing In her makeup is her hair, the entire front of which is parted off from temple to tenn pie and cut short enough to arrange In soft, loose, curling rings or waves over the forehead Perfect success in 6 cos tune requires, more than ever before, that it shall look as though the wearer has been melted and poured in. Still, plain skirts are things of the past, and the smoothness of which have spoken extends only to the hips. A lot of hornets are buzzing about my ears and slinging me little. l poked my pen into their nest when l wrote the plain, disaareeable fact that no decent woman serves as a nude model for artists in the city of New York. The Art Journal says that "malien some very good mem- bers' of my own sex; the Art Inter. change says that Spoke thoughtlessly and flippantly;" the Art Amateur admits part of my truth by claiming that it knows several exceptions;" the Bazaar prints some of the familiar old bosh on the subject, and the Sun gives column descriptive of the virtuous, beautiful model of fiction. All this is indefinite. If any one of these gentlemen knows of the kind of model they are talking about let him trot her right out for in- spectIon. l know something of the artists of this city, and of the humbugs of their profession. One of these hum- bugs is the virtuous model, who poses naked before men without blushing, and is as spotless as marble in her character. Boshl The French Princess who served an artist in this way, and then, when somebody asked her if she aid not feel uncomfortable, nalyely replied: 70, no; there was a fire in the room," was the founder of a long line of frauds. All this nonsense is on par with the theory that actresses can strip themselves on the stage without being one thing or the other-brazen or ashamed. trust the latter are in the majority. By the way, an actress personates sailor in "Voy- ages in Southern Seas," at Booths Theater, and her trousers fit her mighty tight. She has to smoke cigarette. In lighting it. she strikes a match by cock ing up one leg and scratching herself in a swift curve across the rear of those compactly filled pantaloons. The action makes the boys laugh and the women blush. Now. suppose some of my Art Journalists would like to have me be- lieve that this naughty little actress is not aware of the badness of what sLe does.