The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-06-06
CIGARETTE GIRLS.
From Whence Come the PhotOGrahs Ol
These MaidenS.
Girls with FOFms Like JunO-.Whs
r0 Take the Best Pletures--.NOnO
- nat Respectable Girls Apply.

IoAe tne Bess FietureSsssNOmo
nut Respectable Girls Apply.
One very pretty, two commonplace, and
six ugly young women sat in the dusty
Office Of an advertising Photographic work
shop in New York, the other morning,
having called in response to this adver-
tisement, which appeared in a morning
newspaper:
WANTEp-Iiandsoms young girls TO photo
anee, IL, Christopher street.
The photographer came in and surveyed
the result Of bis advertisement, and looked
sorowfully at the World reporter who
was present. Then he explained that he
wanted to get some young women to pose
Tor figures In certain advertising pictures
which his firn were at work upon, and
that he would require that the girls pos
Hess not only good forms and regular fea.
lures, but what was quite rs important,
dresses that were well made and well
worn, by well worn meaning worn with
that understandable air possessed only by
women designed by nature a. animated
fRshion.plates.
At this one Of the girls with an Avenue
A bang laughed. and cried: "say, mis-
ter, what's the matter with getting Mrs.
Langtry" whereat two Of the other girls
snickered and the pretty girl blushed.
But the photographer did not smile. He
merely looked panied. Then he told five
Of the homely girls that they were too
tall, and got rid Of them. The pretty girl
grew frightened and wanted to run away
but the photographer spoke kindly to her
and prevailed upon her to wait.
After few minutes talk, he engaged
one Of the commonplace-lOoking girls, let
the other 20 on the plea that her complex
ion was too fair, and, much to the sur
prise Of the reporter, also engaged the
ugly Eirl who had remained. Last Of all
he turned to the pretty giri and asked her
II she would not like to earn two dollars q
sitting. sho replied that she would, II
the photographs were such as would not
bring her into disrepute, and were not
likely to cause her face to become com.
mon in the shops. She said that her
mother was sick, and that she was OBLIGED
to make more money than she had been
able to do with her needle. At length
she consented to return the next day fOu
a first trial.
"You See," said the photographer
after the girls had gone, I'VE can't tell
much about girls value as n sitter until
we have given her trial. II q girl has q
good form she need not necessarily have
pretty face. You were, no doubt, sur
prised to zee me engage the hOmeliesI
girl Of the lot who came here. Well, my
experience has told me that, although
she was hideously freckled, her features
were regular, and that with proper man.
ipulation by the retouching artist, hei
picture would come out very pretty, in
deed. Truly, her own mother would moi
know the picture, for II will look like the
picture Of q dolI.faced girl with faiI
skin. But We are not looking for beauty,
sive in the abstract. Now, about our
little beapty,I am not 70 sure, for, al
though she was a. pretty as q peach, her
complexion has not life enough In Il 10
render her = good subject, and her iea-
lures, while you would call her very
pretty are not 20 good as the homely
girl'a. For instance, she has q turned-up
nose. Then her figure is rather tho un.
developed, but she is q nice little girl and
as she needs the money, and as Il Is very
hard 10 get girls to consent 10 be photo
graphed I will give her trial. Itook
the other girl simply because she is smart.
She will be able to pose just as she is told,
and knows enough to make herself up Just
% she is instructed. Then she had on q
mighty natty dress--better than she could
afford 10 buy-whish must have been
given her. Her style and her dress car
Tied her through"
Then Il 10 hard to procure young
women willing 10 permit their photo
graphs TO be used for advertising puF-
poses?" asked the reporter.
"It is almost impossible. You see, the
cigarette men have used up the fancy pic
tures Of the actresses, and, by-the-bye,
shout ruined the photographers who
made specially Of selling them. Tho
smokers now appreciate pictures oi fresh
young faces, which they iOndlY believe
belong to the fairies who rolled their
paper cigars. But that's where they are
fooled. The girls who pose as cigarette
makers Of RichmOnd are plump New
York factory and shop girls, who never
rolled cigarettes In their lives. That is,
in the majority Of instances; one or two
may have In the past. We End that girls
won't sit for their photographs. They
think Il disHace. and you will find Just
a. much pride among the tenement house
girls % among the bellies Of Fifth avenue.
The girls who do consent 10 cit are almost
always those who are driven 10 it by sud-
den want. and It is rarely that they will
consent at . future time, when their SER
vices are again required. II gives them
an unenviable reputation and does them
no good. Why, 80 hard Is il to get good
figures for this work that know Of in
stances where an unusually good subject
has been carried shout from New York 10
Boston and Chicago, and oil hepexpenses
and twenty-five dollars q week paid.