The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-04
GOOD ARTISTS MODELS
ARE FEW IN NUMBER AND VERY DIFF.
FlcULT TO SECURE.
Many Women Applying, but Only al
Rare Intervals Is One Chosen n What
an Artist Has to Say on the
Subject.
New York Sunl

New fork Sun
She had high cheek bones, faded blue
eyes sunken cheeks, round shoulders, and
when she bowed herself out of a house OIL
Second avenue it was plain that it was hard
| for her to smile pleasantly at the profes.
sionallooking German who accompanied
her to the door. She was at least So Year.
old, and every year of the thirty five had
bent her shoulders little mora and ad led
another wrinkle TO her skin. but still she
| went in answer to an advertisement say.
ing:
Artist wants young lady of good form
as a model. Apply on Tuesday afternoon
Shs was the third that had callel. Eact
asked particularly about the pay, and was
sure that her form was excellent. Two of
them might have been shapely score OF
years ago, but it would take reasonably
strong faith to be sure even of that The
other woman was young enough, but far
from shapely. None of the three had the
faintest idea what art il. or how model
ought to pose. They had read about mo lei
somewhere, and heard that it was aging
business The good-looking German with a
golden beard bowed each woman to the
door, and explained how impossbls it wa
to engage her. Then he turned AID said:
REQUISITES OF GOOD MODEL
women in New York don't understand
what the requisites for being model are.
| There are few if any who make it their
trade to be public models Somehow or
other they have got the idea that it is not
decent or respectable There ara few
good models i'll New York but they are ap
propriated by the few great artists The
, best get as high as IS an hour. We pay
from 50 cents to 81 for tho we engage.
The best ages are from 70 to 81, though for
d ma ture woman there are models as old as
A. A molel for an artist often isn't beau.
tiiul in features. She may have homely
face, but a handsome form. Or her head
AMI face may be delicately and rightly
formed, while she may be humpbacksd
These last pose for portrait models
sour advertisement was inserted to gel
models for illustrations of German novels
that are being at present translated into
English. Besides, we furnish poses to order
to our customers. These plaster of Paris
casts that are bronzei over and sold at low
prices are made from living models. New
York women make better models on an
average that German women They have
trim, slender waists, broad shoulders ant
Ter in build. America is producing the
most beautiful women of the world, and
the best models, if they would only under.
stand properly what is required of them
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
an Bo,ton, where | have advertised fol
models, there were fewer answers to the al
vertisemeuts, but more of the applicant,
were available. They know something
about art there, and the knowledge Is gen
orally diffusel among the people, so that
each girl knows more what Is expected Of
her if she wants to be a moleL The girl
are not any prettier than New York girls
but they can sympathize with the artist anl
better re- ults can be obtained from them
If a public atelier were opened in New y orb
1t might produce class of women who
would be professional models, Just as they
would engage in any other honorable trade
"Msny of the women who apply to Us ar,
servant girls. They hardly ever suit d.
not know OF any of the women who are EN-
ployed to try on and exhibit cloaks and
dresses ever applying for places as models
Tney consider it beneath them. There is ,
chance sor almost any kind of woman in tn
kind of work we do In Illustrating faith
fully you want to take all and suitable
types 1t would not do to take a slende
American girl for model when the pictur
represented German rural scens. Impur
air, smoking and drinking habits, living il
tenement houses, and their daily life MAKE
New York city men bad class for moo els
+ How the girls manage to 5e so much supe
ror physically to tina men l don't under
stand. Still they do, ami soHe of the pes
moulded forms l have seen come from tn
toughest and vilest parts of the CITY,"