Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-22
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the ceiling into which I suspended my up
lifted foot. With one foot hoisted behind
me l stood patiently half an hour at a
time. Then Sarony would let down my
foot and l would rest five minutes.
But after a while he got so interested
in his work that he forgot me and l stood
forty minutes on one foot. Then l began
to cry in spite of myself and the tears
trInkled down my checks. Sarony paint
ed on with a rapt look getting the express
SION exactly. When he looked up and
saw what he had done he was hopping
mad at me; and l would ave lost my po-
sitlon, as his favorite model, if | had not
promised to do better next time.
1t is great fun afternoons, for then
the best artists are wild awake and |
pose as a flower girl, as a Fifth avenue
lady, as a spring girl riding in the park
and as other attractive people. ! dress
then IN very attractive costumes, and the
only blot is that l have to furnish the
costumes myself. But | buy cheap goods.
| bought q seventeen-cent white China
silk dress for Gibson's last Empire lady.
l trimmed the dress with white swans
down and | bought a big silver buckle
for the front of it. 1t was stunning and
no wonder he was pleased.
Posing for the nude isn't quite so pleas
ant, 1t is generally done in the evening
When there are no col0rs to be caught and
when the artist can paint right along on
the flesh tirts without %hotheling with the
reds and green's. | don't mind posing for
the nude in summer. but in winter it is
pretty cold work. | stood an hour at a
time three evenings every week ali
through December and January and near
" caught my death of coFd every time. |
shiverea So that THE artist brought his
little gas stove over and stood it about a
foot away from me. Then | was warm
on that side and cold on the other.
studios are big cold places anyway and
artists wear cider down coats and big soft
flannel capee and all sorts of warm ship
pGrs. But they don't seem to think of
the model.
] had a snap last winter posing every
afternoon for three weeks for a wealthy
cluhman who thinks he is an artist. He
wanted an a~llegoricaf pose and suggest
ed the long. loose robes Of the Castilian
aides Of long g ] got II p a wonderful
Spanish robe With a Grteian border and
it suited him beautifully. But he sale
| ought 10 have a cigarette in my hanC
aud he asked me if | could smoke.
I told him | would try. And then tina
Gear old thing ordered vichy, and cham
agn and black coffee, and ices for me
to take if | should get ~nauseated with the
cigarette. ! got nauseated pretty often and
for three weeks | got MY lunch that way
Toward the last ] asked q girl chum in.
for the poor lear soul did not always
paint He only worked when he had the
fever upon him and other times | sat
and ate ana drank and smoked a little
just to keep myself IN practice, I told him.
1t would be great fun being a model if
you could get full rates. but that Trilby
craze brought so many into the business
that the rates went down and now !
only get fifty cents an hour when | used
to get from one to three dollars. IT is a
: great deal nicer posing for individuals
than for a class In n class the students
make such personal remarks about YOU
hat your feelings get hurt, but if an ar
fist has anything to say he keeps it to
himself and if he does not like you he
gets another model.