Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-09

ter does not have the fear of the masher
that the woman walking along the street
possesses. Several of the rest l engaged at
the theaters, where my wife and 1 go four
times a week solely to scan the choruses
for suitable material.
Fact is, the big stores are the best
places to secure beautiful girls. and the
majority of the most used models are
graduates from the mems furnishings and
perfume counters. They far outnumber the
actress models, popular opinion to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
THE young, vivacious and pretty actress
makes a good model when she is scarcely
more than a beginner behind the foot
lights. But after two or three years she
loses her natural bloom owing to hard
work and the irregular life and then she
can no longer be suitable for an all-round
subject. It's too bad, for an actress re-
quires training in how to act the part
and how to lend herself gracefully to the
subject in hand.
How a Model is Trained.
Many a popular model is the product of
weeks of patient toll on the part of some
photographer who was attracted by her
beauty of face and figure and took upon
himself the task of giving her grace and
winsomeness. 3r III
This Is almost hard as finding beauty.
Often before the model is trained the pho
tographer has wasted as much as 500
worth of plates on her.
When she is finally rendered perfect
the photographer reaps his reward for
month or two. Then his rivals and
the artists who are always frantically
searching for subjects see her pictures,
realize that a new beauty has arrived,
hunt her up and proceed to tempt her
away from the man who brought her out.
This is an almost inevitable result, and
it Is the most telling argument that pref
ty. vivacious, graceful and adaptable girl,
anywhere between seventeen and twenty
three years, who wants to earn her own
living in a comfortable way, can do it to
the amount of at least $40 weekly by turn
ing Photographic model. The nearer she
is seventeen the better, and If she Is a
beauty Of the Celtic type and will not
detract from the sparkle of her eyes, the
spring Of her step and the rudy glow of
her cheeks by favoring social pleasures
above sleep, she will add considerably to
that sum.
Not All Make Fine Models.
All beautiful girls aspiring to be models
should, however, bear this in mind-that
many beauty is not beautiful in a photo
graph. The photographers have found this
out by bitter and costly experience. They
no longer grow enraptured over every fine
looking woman they meet; they reserve
their praises and their films for her whose
beauty has that indefnable essence that
cannot be lost during the various stages of
photography. She it is who is searched
for the country over and, when found,
the land Is straightway flooded with her
likenesses in a multitude of poses and
studies.
Scarce as are women models, child mod
els are scarcer. When good one Is found
he, like the women, is usually of the mid
die walk of life, due, the photographers
hold. to the fact that the environments Of
this class are more normal than those Of
either the rich or the poor. The child's
knack to pose also not infrequently lands
him on the stage in spectacles when the
atrical managers become aware of his in
nate ability.