Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-09
Girls Who Pose.

The army of models in New York
girls who pose for their living-is
growing larger day by day. The aver
age price that the painter pays his
model is so cents an hour. But, OF
course, there are exceptions. When a
particular girl is needed for a partic-
ular piece of work she receives a
special price. For example, Clara
Betz, we'll known New York model,
who has been pronounced a perfect
woman with the exception that one
foot is one-thirty second of an inch too
short, has received as much as $25 a
sitting.
Within the past few years a new
field has opened for the girl who poses.
She no longer acts exclusively as IN
spiration for the painter or sculptor.
She Is camera subject as well. Now
that the big newspapers and maya
zines are so profusely illustrated with
half-tone pictures, the clever model
finds much work to do in posing for
the photographer.
She pictorially displays the newest
fashions. She shows, by pictures, the
fat woman how to get thin, and the
thin woman how to get fat She poses
for photographers to illustrate serial
story; she gives picture-lessons in ETH
quette, and she helps to make more
emphatic and attractive the words of
the advertising writer. In fact, there
is no limit to work of this sort that
she can get if her face and form are
pleasing, and she has at least pre-
liminary knowledge of the art of pos
ing.
In Behalf of Weeds.
Chivalry in man may go farther than
display of protection for the gentler
sex. 1t was a sense of deepest chIv-
airy that moved a friend to go out of
his way and resent the dandelion be-
ing called a weed No flower lover
but has a very warm feeling for this
courageous little plant. Its very
abundance prevents its receiving its
rightful share of appreciation. 1t is
accepted fike so many household vir-
tues which are taken as a matter OF
course, no one pousing to think that
they are after all the brightest jew
els in the crown of righteousness. I'm
selfshness, faithfulness to duty, truth
and cheerfulness are of such everyday
occurrence that they are overlooked.
So with the marvellous little dande-
lion which persists in poisoning and
seeding and holding it's own in spite
of poor soil and discouraging weather.
Weeds, declares that autocrat, the
dictionary, are "herbaceous plants out
of place." Thus the name is a tltle
of i'll meaning. The dandelion along
the roadside is a flower but just let
it get Roadway in the cherished lawn
and it is forthwith called a weed.
Among the virtues misplaced cheerful
ness becomes levity and wrong-headed
duty may degenerate into bigotry and
persecution. Because some of the
common plants have fallen into disre-
pute as self-seeking weeds, they do not
receive the attention which their
beauty and structure merit. Grant Al
len gives the creeping thistle the high
est place in vegetable evolution, and
the clovers are remarkable for the
modification they have undergone to
suit their special needs.
Take either a head of deep purplish
bloom of clover or one of rOyal-hued
thistle or golden dandelion and dare
any cultivated denizen of the dollhouse
match points with them? So-ca1led
roadside weeds, smartweed, camomile,
mallow, chickweed and even purslane,
with host of other tramps in the
Towering world, call loudly for an his
torian, biographer and photographer
tC make them known. They are a
gypsy folk loving the open, but give
them the chance and, as the oxeye
daisy the Russian and Canadian this
ties have already done, they will over
run your pastures and camp in your
| fields.
CoIors Decreed by Fashion.
A syndicate in Paris declares upon
| the colors for each recurring season,
and formally issues a card On one
| lately received for the autumn and
winter of 1901 there are noted all sorts