Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

nodel ana Increases notably the wages
IhuS in winter there are sometimes as
many loo students whose tins ava dt-
vidcd among three models which makes
more than an extra dollar a week apiece
In summer, when the studio remains open
in spite Of the otherwise universal vacation
a half dozen faithful students VIII stin give
their pittance to the single model ON the
whole, ii is not a bad trade for the persons
likely to take it up. As to any possible
romances between model and student they
may best be told to the marines
There is v ide field for the models art
when is not to be despised. for il requires
some experience-among the private studios
which abound in Paris. For them the
model market mas been notorious at the
Place P.galle, also on Monday morning
when the artists of Montmartre come 10
choose. As ii was on the open street the
vestments of paradise had to be discarded
romance.
The Students Initiation.
re rich American pays re drinks
1t is first rest, and the new students
time. They all rise as one man. lead him
in triumph down the stairs. and ther, out
of respect for his high hat carry nm on
their shoulders to the cafe across the
street The money question is Insignificant.
There is a head to this turbulent rodt of
Young men, called the 'masser," chosen
from among themselves. He attends 10 the
accounts Of the studio, of the new students
reception, as well as of the models. The
cafe proprietor also has an undcrs IA nding.
and at the proper time the American viii
be Informed what the drinks have cost
s. Ii will not be ruinous here in France
where habits are economical and the taste
of men often runs to sugar and water. out
of compliment American grog viii bc
patronizeI on the present occasion; first,
because it IS hot and comforting and sec
onGly and chiefly, because IL is served with
spoons which serve in their turn TO make
the necessary noise
Noise is the principal means of inioxica-
ton, to the French mind, and the spoons
are soon beaten on the glasses TO call for
speech from the rich American who pays
for the drinks. If he, too is pi'imed. he Will
obediently mount the table and open his
chooses. or none at all. II is all the same TO
the crowd. who only wish him to go through
the motions, while they raise he roof with
their cries.
With French student il may be differ
en-. They will wait fer him To enter on n
tide of eloquence, when they viii break out
worse than the deputies on a gala day in
parliament. If he loses his temper, so much
the better; he will be the Senator for
evermore. But the American is voted a
jolly good fellow. and with cheer the
crowd slopes back to the studio. Among
them is an elderly swell-an American also
who lives on his money in the Champs
Elysees quarter. and persuades himself
year after year that he is learning art here
by modelling in clay.
How He Is Hazed.
The ''atelier," or studio, which is a big
art school, has its various divisions, regu-
iarly visited by famous artists whom Nj.
Julian, the founder of number of these
classes outside the government school Of
the BeauN-Arts, has secured for mis- stu
dents. Here in the Rue du Dragon are
Bouguereau, Jean Paul Laurens and Ben
jamin Constant Our American sets him
self to work drawing from the model.
He is supposed to have had enough pre-
liminary training TO do this by himself But
his fellow-students, who have not passed
through the mill without the desire to keep
1t grinding, have not yet finished with him.
Early in the week a grave-looking, bearded
man passes around among the easels, APP
parently criticsing the work. The new one
awaits this first judgment. Is he TO he pro-
nounced a Michael Angelo on the spot?
Alas! when his turn comes he has ii
clearly pointed out to him that he has not
caught the character of the model-the