The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-04

he asked her. half sIeeringly.
nave a good figure, she answered
promptly.
! Are you a professional mOdeI2'' was
/ the next query.
II have never posed at all. she re-
bned, m a housemaid. l read some
thing IN the paper about tie lots of money
the models mode, and [ thought I'd like
IL better than being out at service
The artist looked at the young Irish
woman q mOment.a glancine about the
room wondering what 70 say to her his
eyes fell upon his half-clad model seated
upon the stand. Miss b he said.
xvi ~ you -, tell tnis young woman about
the lie. she wants 30 he q mOGel''
Miss E. with an easy natural move
ment threw the end Of her garnet velvet
toga across her shoulders and gave the
visitor such leTSthy description of the
trials, hardShipS and troubles OF 2 model
life i'll the studios. that when she advised
the artistically. inclined housemaid Ito
90 back 20 makins: the beds and scrub
bing and waxing floors. the latter con-
Guided she had better hear the ills she
knew than fly 20 those she knew not of -
and took her departure as abruptly as
she had come.
Easy to Begin.
Young women endowed with beauty or
grace find no difficulty IN gaining atten-
ton and indeed if they make zip their
minds to enter the lists, Il tap Ut a stu
dio door will frequently end in an en-
EaSement; AMI sometimes young people
who have been strictly brought up and
who love TO sail the seas OF adventure,
apply incoSnitO at artists haunts. Some
times they falter when they discover
what the requirements of the model are,
and return home wiser ii chaSrined and
ashamed Of their performance: sometimes
they enter the life ana continue it "un-
beknOWnst' 10 any one at home.
If Young girls are easiest Ia obtain,
Young men are the most difficult, as the
standard of artistic masculine beauty end
symmetry = hard IL md realized Late
" demand
almost . fad Tor old women and men.
Often a man or woman can be found who,
like certain Ill round actors. is a sort
of general utility nan or woman, and
who can assume the .'fOWerin@ almond of
age" but the real old person with the
naturally SCARED and scanned cdreworn
face gives joy TO the artist
Momey-Mnking Grandmother
These old persons can be dressed and
nut to any useful occupation such as
neeline potatoes or apples. or knitting or
playing any role from ancient mariner 10
shoemaker and woodchopper
There is an old woman in New York
who made her living By sewing FOR
many years but once when in the home
of one of ner patrons, a young iady
sl1etched her. and the old woman, taking
the hint applied heI self with energy TO
getting engagements, and now supports
her Young orphaned grandchildren com
fortabIy with the AID Of her two liveili-
hoods. -. ,,
Models DO not always come from the
lower ranks of life. one OF the , IaFols
noted for her beautiful golden halr,
very luxuriant, and clustering aro.th ~
her head in rich waN es ana het SCI, SCI
comDIexion. She has suffered the sings
and arrows of fortune" have been Uy
turns actress, writer and sculptor M
ally taking up the present mode or ilVe-
lihood and, being so much IN uehialu,
~ secures. a good income. She taxes
an enormous interest in her work ana
likes to throw herself into the part
Sometimes she will even search every
where for beautiful textiles brocades and
veIvets. and make the costumes for her
character studies This enthusiasm for
her work adds further touch of zeal
to the artist and pictures in which she
figures are unusually successful.
Another titled model who would be
greatly in demand if she would accept
promiscuous engagements, is German
baroness, whose title is not a. pretense
but a reality. Her husband ran through
his fortune and hers and nearly every
form of work was attempted, until the
noble lady had TO try posing for the ar
fists. She only allows her head to be
drawn or painted and only sits for lady
artists. and, although the men have tried
raany times to win her for a pose, she I
still refuses yet in her limited circle she
h&s had great success.
1t Bars One Socially.
No matter what the blood, what the APP
pearance, what the genius, what the ed /
ucation,. man or woman who let's him
self or herself out to artists as a model /
is forever barred from crossing the I
threshold of society.
There is nothing improper in the rela-
ton of artist and model, for even in the /
the woman may if she pleas [
IS. remain the statue Galatea and never /