The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-06
ARTISTS and MODELS.
Studio Life Depicted by q Fair and
Frank Professional.
The Truth on a Subject Often Mis-
represented In Print and So
clety-Some Inside Facts
Given by a Model.

istence. To him, or to her, to the lazy put
slider of which ever sex, II appears to have
all the charm of a luxurious incidence
the Incidence that makes money easily.
To a vain woman, or to q woman who
is not vain, but who is conscious of n fin
face and figure-and what woman pos
sessed of such charms is unconscious of
them?-it seems nh easy N a pleasant
thing to be draped in various costumes
m instructed in taking innumerable
graceful poses for the purpose of being
gazed at by admiring eyes, and rams
ferred to canvas for the admiration of
crowds.
And studios are big, handsome rooms
filed with n variety of beautiful objects;
a charming way to pass ones life, dream
ing il way in such an 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
think? They need only take up their
position at 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 90 of into
dreamland, waking or sleeping, and when
the hour is 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 il is natural to think
thus-and is il true? IL is, undoubtedly,
true in many cases. II would be unjust
and u~ngenerous to condemn, as a class,
painters and models. Ii is probable that
cIass 81 men and unmon i'm sn;te - thair
n%ec,liar ,en,ntations
rrhat ,h.ra have ha.n md aro man,
,;r,,,o,s u,on,en WIN nnse for the nnJa y
an ;nd;snn'ahI sac, IN, 'ha, many -
al haulspui lau. nu' ,ha. nndns oi
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haIpno 10 ,his latter class az. ,hnsa NJ
ba,a ooon,a n,n,Jals e. H. .x.;,o,,an,
n9 tha ,h;nm or far ,ha n,rnose 90 ara,i'
frina ,ha;r vanity and nat far the ale nf
t..aaJ and h,,,,nr
,TTha nr,goSs;an,I foua,. medals mr..
liz 81 Tie nxnrk;n" cI.ss wha hay-
mo hacn,,o ,;,od - til hoco,,o ,noJais
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and - roca;y;nn nannro,,s ran,,nar,,;,n
Wha,har ,hasns sna,a,ions ~ .aat;.a,i
,ha fnii,,,;na acno,,n, nil, ,ali nra,,,
Ieariy r, came frnm the Inns ~ : nrc-
tass;an, ,nojai" I'll sIaniar On, 20
aha,,, o. a.hn bob Laan nnoJoI fnr So.
eraI wears.
She hal n friend who had n fr;cpd who
know an ar,is, and ,ho frionJ s,n,as,od
thar She hcco,,e |, ,modeI TrireJ ~ her
work nay NE she gladly consented ana
bands anI foo, For ,b;s shn roco;yoJ IA
cents an bour, one OF the artlsts Tor
WHOM she posed was Keen enough 10 uis-
V that she possessed an unusually
good figure and advised her to pose Tor
the nude, telling her that IL she would do
SO s,e woulu pe apie 10 get plenty OF
work; fosihg Tor the mead, hands ana
feet, he told her, could never be very re-
inuneratlVe, as SO many women DO tnat'
put there are Few good models Tor the
nude.
Al irst she would not even listen To
sIlnh m stlpypStlnn from him. and declared