Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30
ART STUDY.
"A Picture of Girl students Life in
a Paris Atclicr.

"A Picture of Girl students Life il
Paris Atciicr.
Better than any words of mine, says 9
writer IN Harper's Bazaar, Is what one Of
these girl students says herself in some
notes which | asked her to make for me
in addition TO the sketches made by an
other girl at the same atelier. [ give them
just as they are:
For any girls coming TO study art in
Paris, to live as we do in quiet hotel is
aar better and more economical than to
board with a French family or pension,
unless with a wish 10 master tue Ian
guage. Nothing can be more simple than
our habits. We b ave one room, and We
descend to table d'hOte when we choose
r-not otherwise. We cook our own
breakfast over a spirit lamp at a. m,
and 40 straight to the ateier, where we
work till II. Then dejeUner at a cremerie,
and work again till 3 p. m. Returning to
our hotel we can dine il We like, but
EmOre often we boil our kettle, have tea and
an egg, and spend the evening over a
book. 1t sounds rather mouoton0us
life. yet we all ind it very attrac-
tive, and the weeks slip by only too
fast.
Gwen the regular morning walk is
pleasant. At that hour the Quarter Latin
is filled with street sellers wheeling their
stalls about, house wives marketing in
their white caps, and little children in
black pinatores, not white ones, being
taken to school by their bonnie or garcon.
Streams OF men, too, on their way to bCsi-
ness, q newspaper in one hand and a
roll in the other, imply that hard
working Paris Is waking up to its daily
life.
''Our atelier gives us every opportunity
for the study OF character. for in daily
work together most ueOple's natures are
clearly displayed. There is the elderly
spnster, prevented from study in her
youth, and always envying the younger
students who have their life before them.
BESIDE her is a patient artist who has
been tolling for years without making
any visible progress but who still hopes
to succeed one day. Another, equally
Woodworking, with her whole soul in her
WORK, scorns such a small thing as out
ward appearance. and her dress, once
aesthetic, looks like WORKOUT robe de
chambre slowly melting into bundle OF
rags. Bat few who combine the love of
fashion with the love OF art come here in
costumes more suited TO the Champs
ELY sees than to our crowded studio,
where they are in serious danger of rub
blng against pallets, knocking down
easels, etc.
''CompRnionship is one of the pleasant
est bits of student life. Our frugal tea
parties, wnen the hostess bOils the kettle
and sets the table and we all sit around
the fire and discuss the last exhibition,
especially our own professors work
therein, or the success of one OF us in get
ting into the salon, which IS held as
universal trium ph TO all. Conversation
never flags, for some of us have lived at
the ends OF the earth and can
describe them well, and others are politi-
pal spirits who belong to a debating
society and wish to reconstruct the world
after their pattern, which the rest good
naturedly but resolutely disapprove.
Then where to spend our Sunday after |
Moons Is always an important considera-
ton. Nearly always we go out of town
by road or rail. and after six days spent
la the atelier, its close atmosphere reck-
ing with oil and turpentine, the smells,
sights and sounds of the country are only
too delightful.
''Such are our pleasures; but alter all,
the most interesting thing is our worn.
Every Monday we have the excitement
OF posing the new model. We begin en-.
Enthusiastically, but Tuesday, after the |
professor has criticised our drawings, our |
spirits usually sink little. Lower still |
they get Wednesday and Thursday; by /
friday, when the second professor cones, |
they are usually down at zero. Saturday
hnds us in deepest despair, only comfOrted |
by the resolution to do better next week, |
ana that day is generally devoted to |
water csiors, or pen-and-ink sketches, or !
portraits of some picturesque fellow
student, usually kept AS a souvenir when |
the time for leaving the atelier comes. and
the girls who have been working together
all winter go their several ways to meeG
again-wben and where, who knows!
Probably never.
But still they have done good work, poor
elrisl and mingled it with a great deal OF
innocent enjoyment. Aud though Paris
is. most viii agree, not desirable place
for a girl 10 study in alone. still necessity
has no law, and in community is much
saiety. Then young students seem to 20
through the ordeal uRscathed, and, so far
as l could judge, without being unfem-
1niZed. For they are working women,
and, as they honestly say, have ''no time''
TOR ANYTHING but work. 1t is idleness
which breeds the follies or worse than
loliles, OF many young people, teaches
them 10 substitute Irritation tor love, and
the craving for mere admiration, instead
oil that self-devotedness which, however
sad, is at least more noble than the selfish
vanity OF c0nquering beauty. The busy
life of a working woman may harden her
a little, but It will never degrade or de-
terlorate her; and very often, in good
time,
III love comes, he VIII eutcr
And soon lind out the way.
But should he never come, the woman
learns 10 do without him. and will be all
The happier aud better woman tor having
put her life to useful account. And there
fore, as help TO the many girls who must
work, and do work, have given this SIM
pie, truthful aud faithful picture of how
they work in Paris atelier."
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Only Woman's Hair.
From the Ne,0 York Graphic.
Once upon a time there lived a very
strange young woman. As child she