The morning times., 1896-03-22
For the First Time in Centuries, the
French Salon Is in Very Grave
Danger of a Delayed
Opening.

but gauze. She was wrapped round and
round with IL until she was u fairy vision.
but when urged to wear her flannels under
meath, she emphatically declined to do so.
1t would take away from her conception OF
the part of the airy Queen OF Comedy if she
were to be enveloped in prosaic flannels.
Remonstrance was vain and Suzanne pa
raded in gauze in the biting March weather.
Next day Suzanne was laid up with a cold,
and for three days the artists cursed, i'm
plored, begged and threatened her to get
well and do so no more.
In the Easter procession upon the bou-
leyards, and there will be many OF these pro
cessions, Suzanne has promised her serv-
ices in the cayalcaGes dressed in the same
diaphanous attire. And she cannot be
diss suaded from it.
A very willy young American, getting
picture ready for the salon, in which Su-
zanne poses as Il maid OF the mists. sug-
gested to the imperious little queen OF
models that she go as SKY dressed in a
pale blue cashmere gown, with ends float
ing over the heads Of those below.
Just the thing" replied Suzanne, in her
soft. musical French, hut | shall wear
gauZe. Blue sky is thin, so delicate is
the cloud OF hIueacroSs the white clouds"
Suzanne's chum, Madelaine, is a blonde
She, too, is seventeen years old, but is
not as mature as Suzanne. In another year
she may have the plump chee ks, the pretty
hands and the rounded outlines OF her chuIn.
Then she, too, Will be wanted night and day
to pose. But Madeiaine's features are not
quite the perfect ones OF the Queen OF the
Quarter, and her face has a more worldly
look than the face OF Suzanne. With eyes
uplifted and with face to the ceiling Suzanne
is dream of Madonnas of Saint Cecelias. Of
the most conSecratcd OF feminine spirits.
The work OF getting Il picture ready
for the salon is the most important thing
in the life OF an American art student
abroad. The honor is an undoubted one,
but the treatment OF the subject must be
thus and so and the execution exactly as il
should be, or tie picture will not be ad-
mitted 1t is TO learn this standard of
French art, TO pick up the things that the
Partisan judges love, 10 get into the style
of French painting OF the day, that the
young American comes TO Paris.
at is claimed by American artists abroad
that one style will rule the season one year
and another style rule it another year. Be
the fact as il may, it Is one firmly believed
by the students of art who endedyOr 10
fan into the 'sty yle'' OF the year in order TO
be the more readily accepted by the com
mittee
The craze for the face OF the little beauty
whose waywardness and inGiscretions are
causing no end OF trouble 10 the art colony
was started by an American EIri, who
placed the face OF Suzanne upon some birth
day cards painted as 'pOtb0iers' for a
wealthy American woman residing in Paris
upon the Avenue Champs Elysets y p0l-
boiler is a piece OF work done for money
to keep the kettle boiling.
So we'll did this piece of artistic culinary
work succeed that more cards were demand
ed with the same lovely face" That called
the attention OF others o Suzanne beauty,
and the little errand and flower girl was
called from her very humble sphere 70 pose
at 50 much per hour-as the artist could