Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-17

Written for The Rvsninx Star.
NOT AZ sExPECrED.
Trials ana Trsbalssssas q tAs Ar ss.as.s
In raris.
THE ANKnlcAS GIRL WHO GOES TO TEE FnKNcH
CAPITAL ExPEcrrNo TO BECOME FAMo1s-HKR
BRIGHT HOPES TURNED TO DlsAProINrnKxr-
WHAT she LEARNS
TNHE AMERICAN PARIS ART STUDENT,
u female, is homely; male, handsome. OF
course that is the general rule.
There are pretty girls, but it's very little
studying they do, for from the first they are in
constant demand to '.pose." Let one rather
fair damsel come among her less favored sis
tiers and each one of them promptly engages
her, and within two months the private studio
or pension bed room Of every one in her set"
(and It is . large set) has portrait more or
less true to life Generally less) Of h belle on
its walls. The effect is what you might sup
pose. The beauty is irremediably spoiled, and
when she isn't posing for another is painting
pictures Of herself Ia Madame LIE Brun.
The masculine element deserves q chapter by
itself, for it's very curious and interesting
collection Of human beings.
THE Art crRcLEs.
I said that the ''sets'' are large and they are
not over-select; blue blood is not the quali6ca-
ton which admits one to the circle One girl,
rolling in wealth, with a name older than the
United States, a cottage at Newport and the
most fascinating Of private studios in Paris,
had for dearest friend pretty maiden whose
fathers mansion in New York bore DER its
portal the "three balls" coat-of-arms, and who
maid fov hn~s v.~x ~ L..
| fashionable modiste on the Avenue de rOpers.
l admit that she was much more talented than
| the heiress She had one Of the best-no, one Of
the least bad-pictures IN the woman's exhibit
in the Palais de rIndustrie in 1891. wonder
what would happen il the daughter Of trade
were to call on the daughter Of the American
revolution in the Newport house?
POOR AND RICH.
The girl whose pension is up five flights of
| dingy stairs, over a grocer's on the rue Jes
Basins, viii trudge off to Colarossis arm in arm
with the fine lady from the private hotel on the
Champs Elysees and you couldn't ever tell the
| rich from the poor; they both dress in execrable
taste, both look as II they had become truly
French in their habits, and both have that look
Of unutternble, woeful disheartenment which
| every female art student assumes from the
time che is first told by Courtois, Flameng.
or some other bright light that as
yet she doesn't equal Murillo or Rubens. She
will spend hours choosing harmonious draperies
for a Costume model" and yet will sally out
| in a conglomeration Of colors which set one
| teeth on edge. The little Italian beggar who
| poses for her is artistic if her hair is matted
| into O solid wad; so, to be artistic, too. the
| student lets her locks get in about the same
condition. II never seems to occur to her that
what is sauce for the italian isn't sauce Tor the
United-Statesian. =.
on FIRST ARRIVING. .,
'Tis the life q disappointments she leads
which imparts thSt saddened. nothing-is-worth-
while EXPRESSION Her hopes are SO high.when
she reaches "Parie," poor thing. She gods to a
good private hotel spends the first dav making
her room what she thinks an artists room
should be. Copies Of Corregio, Raphael, Rene
and Tintoretto (nothing modern for herr are
nailed on the wall in all degrees of croqkedness;
like the pictures in Marie Bashkirtseffs tomb.
art draperies are thrown here apd there. and
other touches given which make the place look
as if a cyclopS bad struck it. Then she writes
home what SsGainating place Paris is. So Jar,
| so good. When she comes up from dinner an
irate boarding house keeper stands in the sane
tum and in fury talks yards Of Parisian at the
innocent American until finding she lint I'M
derstood the French dame calls ip a. passing
boarder, and tol complete the art student
humiliation has it translated to her that she is
to take down every one Of those gravures and
pay madam three francs for every nail hole.
DlsappOlntment number one.
THE NEXT DAY.
That evening she undoes all her morning
work and adds postscripture to her letter to
the effect that Paris pension keepers are fends
and that, after all, Paris climate is dreadful.
Her spirits have risen the next morning. though
and after coffee and bread which hardly seems
enough to an American at first, she starts off
in her very best gown, to hunt up Julien's
studio. The Meisterschaff gives her the proper
form for asking the way to q street. SO she tries
it on some amN6e Gaul and inquiries for
'ratelier Julien dams la rue de Berri." Alas
the Meisterschaff don't teach the answer and
poor mam'selle is Just AS wise after monsieur
has gesticulated and screamed at her for ten
! minutes she was before. She tries this sew
eral times, but resorts at last to desperate
measures and draws forth, reluctantly the
Baedecker; that red cover is such a giyeaway,
and she hadn't wanted any one to know she
was foreign. But it gives her comfort and
| through it, che finds Julien's Blessed red
book. how many guide-ridden. heart-sick .rav-
elers find peace from thy pages!
| IN A REAL STUDIO.
How perfectly frightful the celebrated studio
smells and how CHASTITY ''greenery-yellowy'0 "a
! girls look. They look at her with soulle0
hopeless eyes; very much as the lost souls il
| hades must look at new arrivals. and straight
way her eyes catch the same expression. Apair
| vi claWs CHthp ucr IL Is an ac-
quaintance from home" and. though the,
have met perhaps twice, they fall to kissing
each other like long-lost sisters SO glad are
they for the sight OF a familiar face. But the
gray claws-for it is modelling clay which gives
| them the ashley hue-have left their traces and
after the first transports of Joy are over our
heroine has time to observe the damage done
| Her very best gown is ruined: not all tkeart of
| the Partisan tinturiere can make il good Sgain
TALE OF WOE
is what the new conner hears from th( Rid vic.
Tins; how Julien's prices are awful, II fte$ D.
ers careless, the air poisonous, the m0&s b6d
the girls hateful end art a delusioak no-
| larossi's is bette4 sb,H so is SiberAy = xhat
matter" Cheerful account to dash o. u I1pes
with. isn't it? w9ser, despite ALI i&S she
engages and pay u a months fu1S bu:
after her easel is9 Sted. her supply 8& nFas
'gite up her nj tg at the ''swell'' hBtel and
Ss s:s :':. g, 4. f. afford IN Il
! lINa IGNORANCE
|; {G9od graelu5y What avery lit.lg he knows.
! she had exp J to paint for the sal pa til first
thing, yet eng. BOnnat, CarolV Duran or
ome other Sless wretch bids r}begin at
lsthe beginni Ind learn to draw. Then it is
\thRt she II be list Of sad-faced sisters Pri-