The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-23

girl fond of pleasure, easily fiattered and eager for the holiday side of life, after the stern, workaday realities. Such a one Is decidedly in danger, if she takes even the preliminary step. It is almost sure to lead her into the way that leads to destruction and disgrace.
 q was invited out once by a western customer whose invitations l had sue ceeded in parr.-ing once or twice. This time. however, there was no getting out of It. My refusals were getting too marked, and l think he noticed it. So l consulted with dear old splnster who boarded in the same house, and who had been like a mother to me ever since l came to New York, and we matched up a wicked little plot I was dressed in my prettiest dinner gown, and my would-be escort had Q very fine carriage at the door, when in burst my dear old friend accompanied by a boy of divers pack ages, and a parrot cage She was gotten up like the typical Aunt Maria of the bucolic stage, and as such l introduced her to Mr.
 "Of course I could not go out and leave dear old auntie the first night of her ar rival in big, strange, lonely New York when she had travelled all the way down from Oneida county. too. so l mod ernized her little and took her along.
 %.tThe dear old soul surely missed her vocation when she took to music teach ing instead of acting, for she played the part of country aunt to the life, and Mrs Gilbert herself never gave more finished character sketch. You ought to have seen MT. Young Man From the Vests face when she thanked him for buying "sech nice vittles' for her and her niece and she said she had fetched down some nice home made cookies. which she wanted him to accept for his kindness.
 My employer smiled roguishly the next day and said: q hear you had quite a gay time last night. Hows Aunt Maria after her outing?. You're all right Miss - I was wondering how you'd manage it without getting him "sore" on the house and taking his trade away
 Must Keep Her Figure Perfect.
 "There are, however other sides to a models life of which the public takes little cognizance but which make it as trying as the recognized ordeals. One or them Is the ceaseess vigils over her contour which she must maintain. A perfect figure is one with a thirty-six bust. twenty-five waist and forty-three hip measurements. If she falls slightly below she may build herself out, but if she exceeds by even a fraction of an inch her occupation as a cloak model Is gone. She may possibly become try CT on'' in a retail establishment but in the wholesale trade there is no place for her as a model for every garment is graded from that standpoint down to thirty-two and up to forty-six bust meas ure the minimum and maximum of ready made garments.
 ''Therefore, if she finds that chocolates and ice cream soda and bonbons are con- ducive in her case to adipose tissue she must turn her back firmly upon the joys so dear to the heart and palate of the summer girl. She must exercise as rig orously as college athlete with the honor of his team at stake and be pre- pared to live as abstemiously.
 Again, from the moment she goes on duty In the morning till she quits work she is either taking off or putting on garments or being fitted. Every woman will recognize the amount of fatigue that entails. One or two 'tryings-on' are as much as the average woman will sub init to in the course of a day, and then only under some especial stress. The model on the other hand must stand, uncomplainingly, for long hours while seams are being adjusted and new ef- fects are tried. She must pace up and down, sit or stand. turn full or three quarter view. as requested, and keep this up by the hour. She cannot even | grant herself the relaxation of standing | with her arms alimbo.
 | 'She must never for one moment lose | the poise of the head. the erect stately carriage of the shoulders. She must be elegant and graceful all day and every | day. She must wear perfectly fitting | clothes of the best materials, Her pa tience must never fail, though she be called upon to make fifty or more | changes a day She must smilingly put 1 on a big seal ulster in the dog days and | stand with her hands coquettishly thrust into an enormous bearskin huff. wher the thermometer in the office registers e6 degrees, for July and August are the banner months when winter stocks are being selected"