The evening world., 1890-05-21
ARTISTS and THEIR MODELS.
Studio Life Depicted by a Fair
and Frank Professional.
The Truth on a Subject often Mis-
represented in Print and Society.

respondent OF the Clnclnnau Enquirer,
the life of a professional model may APP.
pear to be a romantic existence. To him,
or to her, TO the lazy outsider of which.
ever sex. IL appears TO have all the charm
of q luxurious indolence-the Incidence
that makes money easily.
To q vain woman, or to a woman who
10 not vain, but who is conscious of a fine
face and figure-and what woman pos
sessed of such charms is unconscious of
them Pit seems an easy and q pleasant
thing to be draped in various costumes
and instructed in taking innumerable
graceful poses for the purpose of being
gaZed at by admiring eyes, n trans
ferred to canvas for the admiration of
crowds.
And studios are big, handsome rooms
filed with q variety of beautiful objects;
q charming way to pass ones life, dream
ing IL away In such au atmosphere, wear
ing becoming costumes and being inces-
sanity admired.
Then, there is the woman who poses for
the nude. They do not mind that, you
think2 They need only take up their
position nt one end of the room, while the
artist at the other end burns the incense
of respectful admiration on his altar--the
easel. Only energy enough is required
to take the pose, and the model may close
her eyes IL she chooses and go of into
dreamland, waking or sleeping, and when
the hour 10 over she receives n handsome
sum for exposing her charms for the sake
of art.
This is what the world, outside Of the
studios, thinks. But is il natural to think
thus--and is it true? 1t is, undoubtedly,
true in many cases. IL would be unjust
and "unRenerous to condemn. as a class.
painters and models. II is probable that
they are no more immoral than any other
class Of men and women, in spite of their
peculiar temptations.
That there have been, and are, many
virtuous women who pose for the nude Is
an i~ndisputable fact, but that many of
them are quite the reverse is equally in
The majority of women who
belong to this latter class are those who
have become models for the excitement of
the thing, or for the purpose of graft
lying their vanity, and not for the sake of
bread and butter.
The professional female models are gen. |
orally of the working class, who. having
tired OF toll, become models in |
the expectation of leading idle lives and |
Of receiving generous remuneration. |
Whether these expectations are realized
The following account will tell pretty
clearly 1t came from the lips of a pro-
LCbbioIlhl tdl1. btCDuoE WOIlhu |
Of about twenty-five. who has been a
model for several years:
A MODELS owN story.
She had q friend who had a friend who
an artist, and the friend suggested
hat she become a model. Tired of her
work q day life she gladly consented. and
5egan in the usual way to pose for head,
hands and feet. For this she received
fifty cents an hour. One of the artists for
whom she posed was keen enough to dis
that she possessed an unusually
rood figure and advised her to pose for
he nude. telling her that If she would do
10 she would be able to get plenty of
work. Posing for the head, hands and
feet, he told her, could never be very
remunerative, as 30 many women do that,
out there are q few good models for the
At first she would not even listen to
such a suggestion from him, and de-
dared that she would rather go back to
Ter old work: she could not and she
would not expose her figure. The artist
a point 10 gain, however, not only
Tor himself but for the profession gem
as he knew that the supply of
So ho laid down his brush for
hat moro powerful weapon. the tongue,
argued SO we'll that she finally con-
'ented to show her figure.
THE NOVELTY OF POSING NUDE.
She posed first for an artist alone in his
and atterward for classes. She
vas extremely nervous for a long time,
md found 1t impossible to keep her
POSES. After q while, however. she be-
accustomed to being gazed at in a
state, and now she thinks nothing
# it. She is equally indifferent whether
he poses before a class or before one
nan. and it is immaterial to her whether
hey are married or single, young or old.
30 much does custom do.
And so cents an hour is all that she re-
1t Is no more than she received
While posing for hands, feet and head, but
s she is constantly in demand she makes
great deal more money. During the
Winter she poses several hours a day, and
in the evening at the art schools. so
hat she makes from IS to - a day, and
3 able to lay up enough money to sup
'ort herself through the Summer, that
icing the dull season in a models life.
american models, she says. generally re-
ain their figures longer thar the French
models, because they d~issipate less and
AXE more care of themselves. In answer
o a question she said she would rather
lot have her face painted in a nude pic
ure, but that the artists sometimes did it.
But do you never fall in love with any
f the artists2"
oh. l can't afford h fall in love with
hem; there are too many. When you
all In love you are done for. l like AIR.
= : better than any; he is not handsome,
nut he is lively, and 30 easy-going." Her
ace Int mp with a smile as she mentioned
he name of q prominent artist whose
bring high prices.
" Is there not a good deal of immortality
Among the artists and their modelsr"
HoNI SOFT QUI NAL Y PENsE.
"Immorality ?" she asked. Struggling
Ter shoulders. THAT depends on what
'ou call immortality. II you love. / don't
ee any immortality. But if you have a
trong will you can resist. Artists don't
rant their name to come before the pub
ic in a scandal of any kind. so they are
cry careful. They never force a model
o do what she doesn't want TO do; and if
he wants to, If she has the strength, she
resist temptation. Artists are afraid
# being talked about by a model;
mt if they think she won't talk'-. She
hrugged her shoulders expressiyely.
''Some of the girls are really bad
hough they become models TO have
I'M. and they have il. Artists are gen.
passionate men. and some OF them,
ghen they see a mud woman. think that
he is willing to give them everything.
some of them insult me as soon ashley look
L me. tell them | come on business, and
{ they don't want a model / WILL go. One
.rtist laughed at me. and said my figure
vas too line to be resisted. He said |
must have fayorites. / slapped his lace
nd told him thai Waa NV affaIr and NOT