Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-23
THIS EDITOR WAS
QUITE TOO EASY
ROMANCE OF A GIRL WHO POSED
FOR THE MIlLINERS.
HER PICTURE CAPTIVATES
Heroine Poses for Art .sts to Help
Support FamiIy-Little Love
Story Ends With Matron in
Cozy Home All Her
Own.

Over in the borough OF Brooklyn
which lies in the eastern part o.
greater New York. there lives pretty
young matron.
Her age may be anything at all
from IS to %; her height may be
anything around feet Z; her weigh
may be a little over loo pounds. Ana
her position in life is comfortable.
This pretty young matron is now
called Mrs. Carter, but up to las,
! June she was known as Miss Edna
/ Fall. That is, she was known TO the
few who We're acquainted with her,
but it is doubtful if, in all the world,
she knew more than 100 persons.
( And this is all the more strange CON
sidering that she was the pretties,
young woman in the world. Young,
good, beautiful and bright, gifted with
brains beyond most young girls. nice
in manner, sweet in speech lajylike
from start to finish she had yet a
/ very small acquaintance
/ And the reason for this is not far to
seek, Miss Edna Fall was a profes-
sional model, and all her days were
spent in the Photographic studios
Early in the morning she rose and
went to her work" for work it be,
came to her; and at night she came
home only to sink into a tired sleep
and so at ii again next day. She hac
no time TO make acquaintance, no
time for beauX, no time to spend in
doing the thousand and one things
which other pretty young girls did
For she had to pose all day. She
was slave to her own beauty.
1t all began in this way: Miss Fall
was left an orphan and with her sister
she found herself what is known as
"alone in the world" True, she had
relatives for advice. and she had
friends of the wealthy sort, but what
use are they in time of adversely; and
she had family traditions and all that
sort of thing,
But girl cannot live upon family
memories. SO Miss Fall, after the
slump in her family fortunes. started
out for herself upon one of those in
dependent careers which are the de.
light of the American girls.
| Someone told her she was pretty
and, looking in the glass, she believed
/ it. AT least, / am pretty enough
she said And so when millinery
establishment asked her to try on
Z CT oh ha4 -,
before camera she consented. She
was paid 50 for her hours work, and
she went home happy.
That was the beginning of the
career of the most striking model
that ever graced the New York
studios. The next day another Gus.
toner appeared, a milliner. and again
Miss Fall tried on the hats and again
she earned 81 And this was repeated
the next day and the next. Some,
times it was for gowns that she posed,
exquisite French creations, for none
other would harmonic with her
delicate beauty, and sometimes ii was
for coats and wraps. She put them
on before the camera and was photo
graphed in them and she looked pretty
in all of them
One day an artist saw her and asked
her to pose for the head, the ideal
head Of an American girl. And Miss
Fail did So The pictures were a sue
cess and placed on sale in all the art
stores.
From that day her prices rose and
she received s. for her posing and
sometimes $40. This continued until
she was the highest priced model in
New York.
Nor did it take long TO arrive at this
pinnacle for Miss Fall posed for only
very short time Her career was a
meteoric one, so to speak. She went
up like a rocket, so her friends de-
clared. And that she came down like
stick the artistic world will assure
you.
And all on account of Mr.. Carter
One day some Of her pictures were
sent to Brooklyn newspaper and
they fell into the hands of the Sunday
editor, Mr. Carter. He looked at the
DiCtuitS, SmDtu anu IOOhtu again.
Here is the girl for me-" he men
tally decided.
Now, Mr.. Carter was not a young
man nor was he an impetuous man
nor an erratic one Past 30. settled
in his ways. devoted to his profession
and not at all fond of the girls, he
was the ideal man for single ne. In
deed. people sometimes called him an
old bachelor. And few young WON
en- saucily whispered, And a crusty
one at that" Certainly he had been
no Iothair and he had left no trail on
broken hearts behind him. His books
and newspaper were preferable to
an afternoon tea cup and an hour Of
gossip.
But that was before ne met Edna
Fall After he had gazed into the
cerulean blue eyes of this young lady.
and after he had bebeld the wonder