Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-08
STANLEY's BRIDES BOOK.
Who Have Been Her
Models-Their Talk.

Messrs. Cassell 4 Co. have Just issued in Lon
don London Street Arabs" by Mrs. H. NJ
Stanley dorothy Tennant), which is described
as a collection OF pictures OF London street life
taken from original drawings by Mrs. Stanley.
She furnishes some information as TO tho mode
adopted in making her sketches and narrates
various anecdotes respecting her models She
writes in one place as follows:
Il Cannot remember my first ragamufsn
drawing. There has always been strange
affinity between ME and the London gamin'
Born in London. fond of walking through its
streets, parks ard squares the first interesting
object / must have seen was doubtless
some dear little child in tatters, and as
loved drawing even more than ] loved
the ragamuffin il quite natural for
me to try and make picture OF him.
Ny first sell ous essay was n set of Scenes in
Seven D!als.' In MY childish Imagination
Seven Dials meant the hom OF the ragamuffin,
and l enfreated III vain. TO be taken there for
my morning walk. next remember illustrat-
lng Passages from tie Life of Jack sheppard
and resolving in nv own mind that wien /
grew up should be the champion painter of
the poor. and. of course, a very great artist
indeed. Most of the pictures | had seon of
ragged life appeared 10 me false and N lde ND.
J hey were also deploraDly pIteous. pale. whiI.
ing children, with sunken eyes. holding up
punches OF ylolets to needless passers-by: dying
match girls, sorrowfUl watercross girls, ema-
clated mothers, clasping weeping babies. How
was Il. asked myself, that the other side is
so seldom represented? The merry. reckless.
happy lucky urci.in the tom bow giri, the
plump untldy mother dancing ana tossing her
ragged baby. Who had given this side OF Lon
don life? MurillOs 'bcGgar boys most nearly
approached my idcal-but where was the mod
ern Murlllo? Surely there is material for the
painter III our parks, our streets, our cmbank-
ment 10y the banks OF the Thames"
Mrs. Stauicy riIgg gprlp hints "a 70 settinu
about such work as this
III you have no rags to start will" she SAYS
/ land shrink from. keeping them by you, the
best way Is to find an average boy win his con-
hdenee, give HIM sXpCnce and promise him
another sixpenne if lie viii bring yoY q bov
more ragged than himself. This see md boy
must be invited 20 do The same and urged 10
bring one yet more raggety.' You can in this
way get down to very fine spnci
men; but the drawback Is the loss of
time caused by the .ajoling the iifi-
Guilty Of explaining what you want and why
you want 1t, ana .ae great probability of
failure after all your expen1 iture of time elo-
queace, and sixpences. 1t is disheartening 20
nnd Joey Brown who promises to bring
Tommy Galg1, describing him Taggety
all over. n boy wot never washes himself
after two hours waiting. arrive trium-
plant, dragging reluctant Tommy, shy and
overcome by his own mdgniiiCence and cleanli-
ness. Ill q ree-shlling-slxpence suit. stiff
oil, which dr.ps from his smooth hair. Joey
walks around his friend i'll the deepest admira-
ton, trying &c soothe his envy by remarking
that them sort of boots don't wear and that
the buttons look well enough at first, but the
tops drop off-that there kind only leaving the
shgnks.' Here, if you have by you good sup
ply of old cords Corduroy trousers) and
very ragged shirt, length of worn Or
'chewed' string for braces and an old boot
Tommy can be made to look himself again. He
IL
face dirty and ls therefore, to be slightly en-
couraged The hair is the chief drawback, but
II can be worried up into mop again If yigor-
ously shampcoed by his friend And there you
have your model quite ready"
The story Of Mrs. Stanleys little sweep is
very amusing. She tells it as follows:
"One boy. Tommy Raper once helped me
out OF a difficulty. l wanted a small sweep;
he must be covered with SCOT, only his ewes
and teeth gittering, but where to find him? /
sighed as l thought of the difficulty-the many
walks l must take end the many inquiries /
must make before l should find my sweep.
Tommy came to the rescue, if l would give
him "a rest that he might consider,
and forthwith he retired to my little
sitting room, which opens into the
studio. Some time having elapsed and
Tommy's Cminous silence making me fear he
was up to some mischief, hastily went in
search CT him and found his feet in the CRATE
and his body up the chimney My Persian rug
was thickly covered with SCOT when Tommy
emerged from the chimney as black and sweep
like ~ l could desire. Such devotion to art COR
to me- could not be greeted by a scolding.
though the Persian rug was spoiled, so painted
my sweep, and thanked him for putting him
self to much discomfort on nv account"
Here are some of the original ideas ex-
tracted from the active brains of Mrs. Stan
ley's model:
Il asked little girl how she would define
love. Unhesitatingly she replied, It's going
errands.' l asked boy the meaning of the
word guilty. 1T means telling on an other boy,'
l asked Harry Sullivan to define a gentleman.
lie replied, not without some ferver oh, a
fellow who has a watch ana chain Isuppose he
read disapprobation in my face, for he hastily
added, and loves Jesus. This same boy has
very hazy idea Of Old Testament history. He
mad heard of Adam and Eve-'They stole
apples and were turned out of the garden and
then they had to work for their living till the
sweat poured down A girl of eleven told me
how she wished to live in the country, because
then l should not see lot of people having
lot of things | can't have A dear little boy OF
six told me he loved Christmas Day because on
Christmas Eve he hung up his stocking and the
next morning he found present inside. What
did you find last ChristmasY / inquired "A
half penny, he said, smiling with pleasure at
the recollection. But he added truthfully,
put 1t in myself overnight "