The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21

Boston, may 20.-Just how many young women there are in the United States who live in studios 1t would be hard to estimate. Almost every good sized city has a colony of them-art- ists and art students, musicians, few literary workers, bachelor girls of va rious vacations and avocations. There are said to be about 5000 people study ing art in New York City, of whom a majority are women, and considerable proportion women occupying studios and studio apartments. Philadelphia Boston. Chicago, Washington and other cities have their studio buildings ten anted for the most part by professional artists and by young women who ex- pect to become such. Everywhere they rub along in essentially the same way, with some differences due to local pe- culiarities, through feasts and lasts, through friendships and artistic fren- zies, through dreamlife and real &C., complishment.
 No wild Bohemian side has ever been extensively developed in this studio ex- istence in this country-not even in gay New York; and if not in Gotham much less so in Boston where the artistic centre of the city at Copley Square has certainly nothing of the aspect of the Quartier Latin. You need not over haul your Munger and Du Maurier in the hope of learning what the art life of Boston is like-you will only learn what 1t isn't like. Whatever a bad American may become when he goes to Paris before he dies, he will not &C., quire an inordinate love for beer and an extraordinary hatred for baths under the fierce light which beats upon him from the illuminated dome of the State House. Among the professional artists of an American city there Is ordinarily a spirit of hard work and respectable living, and the student of today follows their example.
 Particularly Is this so with the young girls who form a majority of the stu dents. They have come to Boston for work, not play; and they go about their studies in the drawing, painting and designing classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts with the same serious and concentrated attention which they would give to any other in- tellectual task. To live up to the ex- pectations of men like Edmund c. Tar bell, powerful among American paint CTS, or Bella l.. Pratt, one of the most accomplished of living sculptors, re- quires alert faculties. A day passed in standing for hours before an easel or q modelling stand does not incline one to frivolity in the evening; and the girl student is likely to keep early hours.
 Nor when she become professional or semi professional, working in her own studio, giving part of her time to painting portraits or miniatures or making book illustrations, do her hab- its change. The older women in the buildings about her-it may be Miss Cecilia Beaux, distinguished portrait painter; Miss Laura c. Hills, famous among miniaturists, or Mrs. Theo Rug gles Kitson, perhaps the best known of American women sculptoIs-are all in a furore of production, for these are prosperous days among competent craftsmen.
 So the studio girl anxious to lose no time, usually rises at about o'clock and prepares a hurried breakfast with the help. or sometimes the opposition, of her gas stove, and then does her best to make the room appear-and smell-as if no cooking had ever been done in it; as. indeed, there often hasn't been, for girls who prefer to save delay rather than digestion have been known to breakfast morning af- ter morning. on pickles and pie. A case-hardened studio occupant, how ever, says that she has noticed a great improvement in this regard in the past two or three years, due. perhaps. to so
 nuCn popular preaching or the OOCiTlne of health; young women at any rate are eating more wholesome food than they formerly ate.
 Breakfast over. the studio maid, if she is still a student, goes over to her class at the Museum school and settles down to a forenoon of hard drawing ot painting from the live model, 1t IF really hard. for the strain on mind and body is far greater than is understood by the people who watch an artist at work and wish they might nave such an easy task There is often somO trouble regarding the light or the pos ton and expression of the model, and always there are technical problems TO solve and difficulties to overcome, while the mere physical eXertion is rather wearing. To crown all. the art student is likely to end the mornings toll in one of those fits of Encouragement to which brain workers are so liable, and perhaps scrape out all that she has done, leaving literally nothing to show for her long hours of labor.
 However, it Is lunch time and lunch brings tea and tranquility. friend or several friends may drop in at this time. and either the gas stove is called