Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-22

10 the Editor:
Dear Sir:-I read in the columns of
your newspaper last week an article by
Giovanni, the famous man model of New
York and l thought as l read an account
of his easy life, how different 1t was from
the life of a girl model. And knowing
your ~Well-known reputation for fair play
1 write to tell o something about the
daily life of a woman who poses.
You VIII see that from the very begin
ming it is di fferent from the life of a man
model. A man is petted and praised all
the while he poses, but a girl can pose
all day long until she drops to the floor
with WEAKNESS and nobody will speak
a kind word to her. Artists are selfish.
1 would say at the beginning that | am
not the famous Mrs. Clark who posed for
ChaF and traveled with him and his
family, though l have posed for Chase
| occasionally myself and have stood for
a st. Gauden's statue many a time. We
in the model line all have our specialties
and mine is the up-to-date classic girl
for even the best sculptors do not make
the classic figures as severe as they used
to. While | am not very beautiful in
face | nave an excellent figure and I pose
for the bust, the waist and the hips,
though not very often for the ideal head.
I have often posed for the figure and had
someone else pose for the face. ] also pose
for the hands n the neck, but my nose
is not quite straight enough for the
classic or the ideal.
The life of a girl model in New York
city is very hard. She must work all
day for very little and she must live as
though she were a princess. A broker
fingernail. a Sunburnt nose, a swollen
eye-lid will throw her out of her occupa-
ton as decidedly as though she broke
her leg. She must be exquisite in every
physical detail, and every woman knows
that it costs money to be a lady. Baths
and cosmetics and toilet SOAPS and per-
fumes come high. yet the artists require
them of their models. / am the hardest
worked Young woman of Twenty-Five in
New York city. I get up ut seven
O'Clock and by nine I am at the studio.
My first appointment is with a minia-
ture painter. a very we'll known woman
who makes a practice of getting the
morning sun upon her work. | pose for
her in costume to represent her patrons.
One Of the Armour family had 4 very
pretty miniature painted. 1t was two
thirds length. The lady posed until the
face was completed and then the painter
told her that she would secure q model
for the figure. ] stood patiently for ten
mornings, two hours at a time, while the
artist painted the figure upon delicate
ivory. The picture was a success and
] received ten dollars for my part of it.
The painter got 500.
At noon ! generally pose for a young
man who illustrates fiction. Some days
I am the 1ar2uid heroine lying upon a
! couch and doing nothing all day long.
That is pleasant and I lie there and
dream how nice it would be to lie still
and DO nothing all the time. If get
| drowsy and let the paper fan out of my
hand I am recalled to myself by a sharp
word from the artist. Tie Would dis
charge me and get another if l were to
| fall asleep and spoil the expression.
| I once did this, or worse. I was posing
for a Diana. standing upon one foot
| with q drawn bow. To make the position
| easier the artist, who by the way, was
! the late Sarony, rugged up a tackle from