The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01
EREsCo AND Friction ToDErs
FnmOusIy Beautiful Women in Con
slant Demand

New York, Sept. 29-Beautv that "a
something more than skin deep is possess
ed by group Of four fair women who are
the models for some of the most noted ar
lists in New York city. Age cannot witber
nor custom stale the value and charm of
their good looks either, for their lovely
features have been translated on dozens
OF the most valuable canvases in pubic
buildings or private houses and those who
make special pilgrimages to the great
aldorf-Astoria hotel to see the ceiling Of
the big ball room frcm the brush of Mr.
blashfeid are enjoying in oils the best
interpretation given of the ethereal lowell
ness OF Grace de Forest. This blonde hlue
eyed girl with a complexion like milk and
roses and the round YET slender arms that
artists love is considered the most perfect
model in New York for colorng and Tor
the representations of spring, the spirits of
dance, music the wind, exc. Her NIadon-
na-hke brows and eyes have been celebrat-
ca IN the big picture of Christina bells by
Mr.. Blashheld, where crowds of angels
cluster about a lofty church berry.
When Edward Simmons undertook 10
adorn the walls and ceilings of FREDERICK
Nanderbilts stately country house he
made Ureil Hodges famous by posing and
painting her as the Aurora in the gro11ns
OF NEUROLOGICAL figures. He wished an Au-
rora with red gold hair, a young. lovefv
ana smiling face and fine shoulders. ana
this young woman, an American by birth
as are all the most beautiful models fitted
exactly into the place
IL IS her remarkable hair, inherited from
an English mother, and her smiling red
Tipped mouth that had made her admired
among the painters, though she approaches
perfect beauty more nearly, ia all her
features, than any woman who sits in the
STUDIOS and winter and summer her en-
gagements. well paid, too, keep her busy
the year through
Now and then at the picture shows there
slips through the crowd a slim dark-eved
woman, who critically examines the la
pastel picture by j. Wells Chamnney.
Sometimes ii is her own face in lis en-
tirety she observes, but oftener il is her
own lustrous dark eyes that look at her
out of her frame, for Jane Marbury IS
Mr.. Champney's favorite model Chatralu
and Carolus Durand have both made those
eyes immortal on their canvases, Benia-
min Constant put them into a picture Of
an oriental slave woman which he sold 10
Queen Victoria, and altogether this gentle
little girl has more reason to be vain of her
good looks than many women who are
more beautiful in detail
Stella Archer IS the society model par
eACelleuCe, anu IODeQ III SaQn ana lace,
blazing with Jewels and languidly wav-
ing her fan she is busy early and late
playing an important part in the Illus
trations that I'LL the magazines. c. D.
Gibson made the discovery that no other
woman had just the pair of broad yet gra-
cious shoulders he needed for his AmerI-
can girl but Stella Archer. Nearly every
week she gives him sitting, runs over
to Delaware to pose for Howard Pyle as
an eighteenth century lady and yet can
convert herself into a splendid model for
Smedley, while she was always the fash
ionab.e creature in brocade and faultless
couture that made Wenzell's pictures so
fascinating.
1t goes without saying that by their ma
tive beauty these three young girls whose
every hour daily and often many hours
on Sunday are filled with engagements,
earn a most comfortable diving, and in
their profession they have reached that
point of fame and value among the ar
lists that they con afford to ask good
prices and to let artists seek them out
not, as is the misfortune of an average
model ask the chance OF a sitting from
studio door 20 door.