Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28
Uncle Sans Clever Trlbys Who Are Earning
French Francs in the French Capital.
MINNIE HASTINGS, OF NEVADA, THE "QUEEN'
Story Of Pretty Americans Who Went to Paris to Write
But Dnfted to the Studios
THEIR GRACE MAKES THEM THE HIGHEST PAID MODELS.



/ brush and palette were laid aside. Miss
Kraft has been gypsy so many times
that she doubts now whether her veins run
free from Moorish blood. and the number
of occasions IN which she has been a span
| ish lady got beyond count year ago. she
is rather high priced and poses only TWO
hours a day. She keeps house on the top
floor of a nice little street in the Latin
! Quarter and receives her patrons IN
/ iovial assemblage every Monday evening.
| American girls make capital altogether
| models. They catcz the peculiarly pure
look which a model must wear upon her
face or lose the point Of the picture. Nin-
/ ginfa on the beach with 10 clothes on Is
very touching if Nirginia's expression be
/ sweet and pure. Blu, # Virginia has "A
/ self-conscious look you think the picture
| suggestive. American girl models seem to
grasp this idea and, as one Of the austs
! remarked. they will reach out for bit of
forbidden fruit upon n mythical tree
without any clothes on-w,h an expires
sion as earnest. wistful satisfied and true
as though taking n cup Of delft from a
pantry shelf.
The frsliiest scenes upon the boulevards
are furnished by the girl models of Amer
lea. They get out and run rio; in the
midst Of the French crowd. the gayest Of
the gay. They will not admit their ma
tionality then and will speak no English.
An artist thinking he recognized his de-
mure high-brsd American model in "a
melee on the boulevard. with the confetti
falling thick about her. ran up and with a
little feather custer hlcked her on The
head.
"schocksc-ng. shockee-ngr exclaimed
she. fighting off the brush And that was
all she would say. "Shockee-ng' is the
word with which all students and models
are armed. It is all the English they
know.
A dear lttlc model is Amy Bland. girl
who came here from the West with her
mother to live. The mother was in poor
health. but the Blands had little money
Then came the panic Of 1893 and the IN
come dwindled. Now you see Miss Amy
going out every morning. rain or shine.
with a little satcheL II contains her lunch
and her costume. She poses for society
nictures and her mother makes hsr the
dearest litlc gowns OF all colors. Sn'
vesrs "the latest" IN neck and sleeves.
and her waist IS long as Elizabeth or
short as Josephine according TO the pic
iurs. She is one Of those women VINO are
.i,r,,.s walking toward you in picture
u,irb one hand out in pretty fashion. she
is tiny little girl but so well propor'ioned
tn,t Won forget the height when you are
naintiue her She IS long from her waist
down. and that IS what artists want IN
society pictures. the Gibson leng,h, OF
~ we say the "Du Maursr length for
1oor I'm Maurier Is quoted by artists now
as he never was before.
Il is thought a queer occupation for an
American girl in Parls-that Of posing for
salon pictures, when there is French chic
n count against her. and a long established
fad for French models. But the demand
exists: and, where you ma group OF
artists. YOU are sure 10 find one boasiins
mat he has secured one Of those awfully
clever well educated American models.
MRS. GREY CANFIELD.