The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-09

, her $12,000 in commissions. Others mee
 with varying success but if they dt lwell at all they usually make an excel
 lent income, Moreover, they are as
 class, respectable, hard-working girls
 with little time or inclination for in
 trigue and scandal.
 With the models things are different They must be attractive. Most of then
 are beautiful. Their work requires nc
 especial intelligence.
 They haven't the safeguards of en-
 crossing work and shrewd common
 sense. The models salary is compara'
 lively slim, She lives in an Atmosphere
 that cultivates her taste for luxury.
 She sees women squandering money
 like water, revelIing in material enjoy ment. All about her she hears scandal
 lightly treated, lightly regarded She is
 pretty and young and athirst for gay ety and pleasure. So the models dc
 not. as a rule, stay long in an atelier.
 Sometimes they disappear for good
 Sometimes they drift in and out. and their comrades of the atelier comment upon their coming and going and re- late news of them with a great interest and lack of censure supremely Gallic. Yet some of the aelier models are charming girls, and there are from time to time stories of romantic marriages among the class and of more prosaic marriages.
 After the salesWoman and medols come functunaries who are really au- | tocrats and command a certain deter~ ence even from the grand mogul whose names shines over the door of the es- tablishment. The chief skirt and waist makers command big salaries and, when satisfactory, are fondly cherished; for, while fair workwomen are abund- ant in Paris women fitted to stand at the head of the cutting and fitting are rare treasures. A good skirt or waist maker can make as much money as the average clever salesWoman,
 Last, and apparently least, are the ordinary WorkWomen, a host of them, hard working, poorly paid, yet by no means of the Song of the Shirt type. There is no reason why any woman who can sew we'll should stitch away in poverty stricken attic in Paris.
 She can get work at a big shop and If she is industrious and clever, she stands a better show for a successful career than even the salesWoman or waist maker, As a matter of fact, the prosperous dressmakers all over the world are evolved chiefly from the Par isian workvomen.
 They are the smartest set of women on earth. I really believe said a fa- nous French dressmaker to an Ameri- can woman who asked him about them "They get little money, but they do get big chances.
 "A clever little woman comes in here and sews She watches everything, learns everything. She is bound to get ahead ..
 By and by she begins to evolve ideas of her own. She designs sleeve trim ming, collar, she has an inspiration about sash or flounce. It is easy for her to sell such an idea.
 "The dressmakers are eager for any note of novelty You think the big men sit down and design all their costumes out of their own heads? Well they don't Sometimes one may. but large percentage of the great dressmakers never were dressmakers, never were artists.
 They are only good business men. They know how to manage a big dress making business and to get people to furnish ideas for them. There are any number of bright little workwomen in Paris who constantly furnish designs to the big firms and never receive any credit for it.
 But you see, they aren't in q posi- tion to launch the ideas, themselves They must sell to some one who is, and content themselves with the money while the great man gets the fame"
 Well, the workwoman goes in for that sort of thing, and learns all she can and saves little money, and watches for her chance. Then, one day, she leaves. She goes out to St, Germain say. and takes couple of rooms and puts up a big brass sign, Jeanne, lately with Paquin," and the bourgeoise round about flock to her on the strength of the magic name.
 It is excellent capital that name. Jeanne doesn't think it necessary to that she was only an ordinary in the Maison Paquin. She gives an impression that she really ran l the establishment and that with her | departure it probably tottered toward | a fall
 She is really a clever dressmaker She | succeeds. She enlarges her establish | nent, she moves to q more fashionable [ quarter,
 Perhaps she sets sail for a foreign | land, with her Parisian accent and her 'lately with Paquin' for ballast, And | In many cases she makes not only a good living, but a fortune, fame.
 She goes back to Paris in blaze of glory to buy for her establishment, She visits the old atelier and patronizes her 1ld friends,
 London is full of such glorified work women Australia and America have thousands of them.
 It is the workwoman who wins out, The model. the workWoman-it is the id fable of the grasshopper and, the mt, and the moral is that a clever head S a better asset than stunning figure n the world of the dressmaking atelier New York Sun,
 STEAD AND CHAMBERLAIN