The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-12-31
ARTISTS. MODELS IN PARIS.

,r,at. ,r,ns and Throats Struggled Into
Portraits Of Rich Won en- of Fashion
report of a contem plated strike OF I
the models in Paris has brought OUT an
interesting observation-disclosures one OF .
the ladies in the profession and a repre- .
sentative Of paper in the trench capl-
tai. says the New York sun.
WELL" said the reporter to thlS
Young woman, whom he describes as a
handsome blonde, with fresh and rosy
compleKion. you are all or strike, eh'
You arc syndicating?'
With a smile and shrug she repled:
Nonsense. that thing could never
take"
"And why?"
at is easy to understand. You sec
there arc two kinds of models, those
who follow the thing all their lives and
those who take it up en- PEASANT. The
first are the models of the academies,
who want to 90 on strike, and the sec
ond are the artists models, who laugh
at the proposal and treat it as hum
bug. lau will find the first at the
School Of Fine Arts with Julian, in the
ateliers OF Dormant, Jean-Paul Laurens
and Cormon. The women get four
francs sitting and the n4en three, the
total earnings of day being eight and
six francs. At the end of the week
there is also the cornet.
every Saturday the monitor goes
round with cornct, or horn-shaped
paper box, and takes up collection
The students give from two to five
cents each, according to the degree of
satisfaction which they derive from the
models. That brings in about seventy
five cents, and sometimes one dollar:
but this is rare, and, moreover, the
models do not get work every week.
They are often brought down to ex-
IRENE poverty, and often have to sing
in the streets and beg. The women,
formerly servant girls, get places again
when they can, and some Of them do
worse"
Is it possible?'
II. is as true as | am speaking TO you;
but they always come back and pose.
/ As for the artists models, there are
! very few men among them, on account
7 of the increasing scarcity of church and
4 historical pictures. For the women il
\ is temporary business. A fresh and
well-made girl commences TO make hel
living in some dressmaking establish
ment, where she begins to undermine
her constitution and redden her eye:
from eight in the morning to ten anC
eleven at night, and all for what
About seventy-five cents aday. Even tina
would not be 50 bad if there was stead,
work; but the dull times are frequent
So she decides to pose. At the begin
ming it is hard, oh, very hard, but at las
we become reconciled to it, because
is fine thing for poor girl to maxi
her four francs day. Certainly tn
model does not get work every day u
the beginning. She gets her customer
gradually. But when once establishe
She is all right. At one place she pose
for the entire figure At another sh
poses for some detail, especially anon
the portrait painters"
The portrait painters?"
why, certainly Do you fancy thi
those fine and rich ladies would take til
trouble to sit for eheir portraits ever
day for three weeks? That would til
them pretty soon. Consequently thre
fourths of the artists, when tho pre-
aration is finished, take the fee
the hands, and sometimes Il
arms and throat from us. ter all,
is not such bad trade, although thel
are always dull times in the SUNNI,
months. The business has only OF
drawback serious one-it doesr
last. You sec we can't always
young. When we touch upon twent
five the complexion begins to fade. !
that age also we become fat. Then Y
1uit the business and return to drc>
making"