The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-04
MAklNG FASHION PLATES.
Kind Of Art That Affords Young Girl
Artists "a Means of Making
"a Living.

A girl who paints water color heads
very well, but does not always get orders
for them, paints heacs for fashion plates
in the intervals of waiting 1t is very
easy and not uninteresting, says the New
York Sun.
She works in one of the many estab-
| lishments in New York where the max.
ing of fashion plate pictures goes on,
those pictures of swishing skirts and the
delicate draperies that are scattered
broadcast over the country. This is how
the work is done
A girl who is an excellent artist visits
the openings, wherever they are held
She carries with her surreptitiously lit
tie pad about the size of her palm and
pencil. She studies a gown, takes out
ner pao anu Iots uown ner notes OF II
before watchful eyes can see her.
Or if the fates are propitious and no
body interferes she draws the entire gown
In miniature. Then she brings it back to
the place of working which is, as often as
rot. the two parlors of some downtown
boarding house There she enlarges the
drawing.
There are sometimes other girls in the
same room with her; but oftener the girl |
who paints the heads and this particular
artist who does the original sketch from
the real gown sit in the front room
alone; as, being superior artists, by |
rights they should.
Then In the next room gather the 9TH
ers, ten or dozen Of them, copying the
first sketch. One, nimble with her pen.
inks in the original drawing, another
colors it. another paints in raised
splotches which when finished corsti.
tute the decoration of the gown, another
sketches in the lace. while still anoth IT
finishes out the picture with bit of land
scape calculated to give it atmosphere.
Then at the two windows kneel eirls
who are busily engaged all day long in
tracing copi's of the original drawn by
the girl in the front room. II the sun
shines that is good it brings the lines
out better for the eyes, but If the day is
gray the tracing is more difficult ard
lard on the eyes. The arms. too, con-
stantly raised up to the light in the draw.
Ing room. soon tire. But compared with
he drudgery of machine work 1t is play.
Figures are Stretched and painted in old
rose, in mauve and in blue, but no face
adorns them. That is left for the finger.
II the genuine artist.
When the gown is quite finished, the
'oloring laid on. the decorations touched
Up with high lights and the bit of land !
'cape added, then Is the picture forward
ID to the girl who sits in nool' of her
,wn by the front window, where the light
S best. painting heads. some with dreamy
yes, blue black and brown some with ,
saucy look, and some calm. as BELTS ,
he spendor of the gowns to which they
re attached. but all very beautiful ,
And the girl does II contentedly, too, {
or she has learned sense. II this pedes.
al is not one of the highest, she is to set '
pom II. She is praised, and she has 9
earned by experience more or less bitter :
hat II is better to do work that is praised :
nd paid for. IL II does seem to partake OF 1
he every day work of the work-a day q
'orld than to sit In her studio and q
tarve. c
Missouri Editors accept. !;
st. Louis, Nov. 29.-The invitation q
itended to the Missouri Editorial as C
,ciation by President Francis to hold n
S next summer meeting on the U
'orld's fair grounds during the .
'orld's press parliament, next May, -
rs been accepted by the executive -
'mmittee of the association. n
Justified by GOV. Durbin.
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 29.-Gov. {,
nrbin said that he thought the Chica- o,
} police were justified in crossing the A