Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-15
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men and the models go. What did the women
wear asked an innocent American. MOSTLY
nothing. was the calm reply. Then there
Oreste, the handsome Italian model. I'D fall
madly In love with him if he would take a ba n ~
Il suggested that to him." saws Mosler. but
he scorued the idea; didn't want to establish a
precedent, | suppose" More music more
gossip. and the party breaks I'D.
There are some queer characters among these
girls. There is the girl who thinks she can
paint and the girl who knows she can paint
The first perpetrates the most painful daubs
You weren't vain at first. but YOU are meeker
than Moses when she shows You a head that
might have belonged to one of the Grae and
tells you ii is a likeness of yourself She makes
you present of it, oh, YES; she is prodigally
lavish with that sort Of favors. she covers
yards and yards Of canvas and gives every inch
Of II away. and YOU must frame and hang her
productions too.
SHE KNEW SHE COULD PAINT.
The girl who knows she can paint is rarer.
There was only one in our set, Miss Davis
She started in at Colarossi's, on the Avenue Vic
tor Hugo, but the instructors told her she
couldn't even draw. She knew they were Just
prejudiced. so she tried Julian's on the Rue dc
Berri. The teachers there were quite as mean 50
she tried Julians OF the Passage des Panora-
mas, with no better success. then MOsler's pri-
vate classes; still the same But the young
plenty Of money; so she hired a house, all for
herself. with no one 10 share it. and now she
paints there, far from the madding crowd
Several trials for the salon have resulted IN
failure, and the girl who knows she can paint
considers herself the victim of deep-laid plot.
Now. Miss Davis gave teas. too.
'But as her friends are shy and wary nobody
came but her own canary"
For she is 50 kind as to criticise from her
superior height the humble efforts of all her
acquaintance. and that, together with the fact
that some evil-minded people accuse her Of
being to put il delicatelv. cracked" does not
tend TO make her a favorite.
As there are queer art students so also are
there queer models.
Oreste heads the list
Oreste l. handsome in an Italian brigandish
sort Of way, black enough TO be rnulatto. with
mop OF curly hair standing out five inches
from his head, like a sOOty halo. Oreste con-
siders himself fascinating. When he is posing
for the nude he makes sleeps ewes at the
girls and trss 20 talk with his wicked sparkling
little orbs. Moreover this WORTHY Italian knows
his figure Is good and therefore wears when ont
waking, his solitary coat entirely unbuttoned
and open to the breeze. There Is nothing
under bis coat. either. IN tie way of vest or
shirt, 80 il i, not exactly pleasant to meet him.
But woe to her who fails TO return his gallant
bow; the next time he poses for her he will
get even bv standing about as still as a bear
ON hot p!oushshares-
nODEL WHO PAINTED.
Then there Is an Italian woman, we'll to-do
once, and respectable even now. though she is
"a nude model. After she lost her money she
went to Paris to look for work. failed utterly
and one night was about to plunge into the
seine, when n Young man who was wandering
by the river held her back and, being struck by