Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-08

forearm IL too we'll developed, almost
muscular. The soft outline is gone. You
might as well have been riding q wheel az
far as your muscles are concerned"
Invent homo very sad and guiltily wise.
Next day went back to him. But he
found all sorts Of fault with me- He had
changed the picture and was painting upon
q Newport scene where the girls were
playing upon the beach. "Your limbs
pardon me''-said he, "are not what they
used to be. Your calves were go perfectly
rounded. Now notice lumpiness that
1t is impossible to paint in an ideal leg.
And really, Miss Calligan, fear you are
growing heavy. Your muscles are so big"
Disguised, left the studio and went on
my rounds posing. In New York a model
Is a far different parsonage from q model
in Paris. Here she is her own mistress
Her time is her own outside Of posing
hours and she is not expected to perform
the Trilby functions of cooking, mending
and nursing. She can be as independents
rs the lady who gives the artist his COM
mission. Therefore, though had been
riding month, had not mentioned it to
any OF my artist patrons.
Tho next place I went I was to pose for
the hands of society woman who is beau
My hands are usually beautiful white,
delicately tinted upon the palms and finger
tips and shaped as those Of the Milo Venus
might have been had they not been lost.
took my place in the chair of state and
rested my hands upon my lap in an idle,
graceful way. Impossible, called out
the artist. "Try again." moved my
hands. The next minute he was on his
feet coming toward me, moving my hands.
laying them here and there and turning
them this way and that. Never will do
Won't do at allr' he exclaimed. "Too
red, too coarse, too lumpy in the phalanges
Of the thumb. Yet they told me you had
the best hands of any model in New York. -
81 have" cried I, bouncing out Of the
chair and ready to cry of modification,
but you shall never paint them!' And
fastening out of the studio / left him and
sprarg upon my wheel, off down the street.
That night wrote to my physician:
MY DEAR DocroR-will you kindly inform
NE il you consider bicycle riding hurtfui to an
artists model: A month ago was the best
| model in New York. You prescribed wheel
| by return mail. as q great deal depends upon
1t.
The answer came back:
|
wheel. did not prescribe for an artist,
model. but for a flesh and blood woman. Rid
ing develops the muscles Of the radius and III
| ma, making the forearm large. IL develops the
muscular mass surrounding the tibia and NIB
MA until what Is known as the "calf'' II en-
| lArged, and IL swells the knee The neck mus
| cies viii be found to increase under riding. A
woman who rides will not be . Venus de Med
, tct, but she stands q chance Of bidding defiance
1 20 doctors Very respectfully yours.
| DR. BIAIn.
Now, that Is the truth, and ask what
can be done about IL. Somebody has sug.
| gested that become bicycle Trilby and
make profession Of posing for artists
upon the wheel must do something foz
living, and is b IN open question with
Ne whether 70 60 back to the tired feelina
I'D the INDIGESTION and b IN deal model
q beauty Or stick 10 the wheel and become
. bicycle Tkuh1.