The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-20
GOOD ARTISTS MODELS
ARE FEW IN NUMBER AND VERY DIFF
FiCULT TO SECURE.
Many Women Applying, but Only at
Rare Intervals Is One Chosen-What
Artist Has to Say on the
Subject.
New York SUM-

Sac had high cheek bones, fadeI b!u9
eyes suukel cheeks, round shoulders, and
when she bowel herself out OF a house CT
Second avenue it was plain that it was hard
for her to smile plea sanay a. the proses~
sional-loDkin, German who accompanied
her to the door, She was at Leaf 81 Year,
old, AMI every year IF tle thirty-3ive had
bent her shoulders q little mora and al led
another wrinkle 10 her skin hat still she
went in answer to al advertisomsat say
ing:
Artist wants a young lady Of good form
as a model. Apply Tu-s1ay aftarnO N.
Sho was the third that had cala !. Each
asked particularly about tue pay, AMI was
sure that her form was excellent. Two Of
them might have been shapaiy & score of
years ago, but it would take reasonably
strong faith to DO sure even OF that. The
other woman was young euouga, ia5 far
from shapely. Non, Uf the tlro IA / the
faintest idea what art i :. or how 4 model
ought to pose. They had read about noleis
some where, and heard that it was a paying
business The gool-.ookiAg Garm&l with a
golden beard bowed each woman TO the
door, and explained now impo ,sibio it was
to engage her. Then he turned and said:
REQUISITES or A GOOD MODEL.
women in New York don't understand
There are few i; any who MAKE it their
trade to be public mod.ls. Somah9w or
other they have got the idea that it IS not
decent or respectabis. There ara Il few
good model IN New York, but they ara ap-
propTiated ly tie few great arti,ts, The
best get as high as 81 an hou-. We pay
from % cents to 81 for tho we eaga e.
The best ages are from Is t, 81 tloa n for
a mature woman there are modes n Il as
- \ model for al artist o:taG NJ tesu-
tiful in features. Sle may have = E0mely
face, but hand-Om form. O. h"r uasI
and face may be delicateiy and risatly
formed, while she may lie huml ba i.e.3.
These last pose for portrait models.
Our advertisement wa5 inserted t, get
models for Illustrators OF German novels
that are being at present TRANSLATED into
English. Bssiies, We furnish poses to order
to our customers. Taase iaster of Paris
casts that are brouZol over and sol a low
prices are male from living model. NV
York women make better models on an
average that German women. They have
trim, slender waists, broad shoulder and
graceful form, German women are heav-
Ter in build America IS producing the
most beautiful women OF the worl !, AMI
the hest moiels, if they would only under
stand properly what IS required Of them
BDSlON AND NEW Kuhn
in Boston, where | have ADVERTISED for
models, there were fe yer answers to the q !
vertisements. but more of the applicant,
were available. Trey know something
about art there. and the knowledge i gen
orally llffI,e among the people, SO that
each girl knows mora what is expected OF
her if she wants to be a mOiel. The girls
are not any prettier than New York girls,
but they can sympatlize with the artist and
letter re uits can bo obtained from them
Ii public atelier were opened i'll New Y or,
1t might produce class of women VINO
would be professional molels, just as they
would engage in any other honorable trade.
MANY of the women who apply to IL are
servant girl. They hardly ever suit do
not know OF any of the women who are EN-
ployed to try on and exhibit cloais AMI
DIRE 5ses ever applying for places as models.
They consider it beneath them. There IS q
chance for almost any kind of woman in the
kind Of work we do. In illustrating faith
fully you want to take all and suitable
types. 1t would not do to take q slender
American girl for a model when the picture
representa- a German rural scene. Impure
air, smoking and drinking habits, living III
tenement houses and their daily life make
New York city men q bad class for models
How the girls manage to lie 50 much supa-
rior physically to the men l don't under
stand. SSH they do, and some of toe best
moulde forms l have seen come from the
rOLghe aud vilest parts of the city