The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
DRHAND FOR CHILD MODELS.
HHEIR BEAUTY MADE USE or IN
COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

Chndren Able % Earn From sla 20 ems a
Week by Posing Little Girls win
Chubby Faces and Curly Hair seuxhr
Mest-Bsys Less succcssfui 90 Models.
30 great has become tho demand for
child models In the last few years that
according TO a New York photographs
Almost any pretty child can command an
engagement. II not infrequently happens,
a he, that the support Of families rests
upon small shoulders and cases in which
children earn sufficient not only for their
maintenance and clothing but also for
their education are plentiful.
IL 10 perhaps in the line OF commercial
photography that the best field for child
models lies. Commercial photography
supplies pictures for advertising the prod
not OF usine and manufacturing houses.
Children who pose for these illustrated
advertisements earn anywhere from gi7
TO t14 q week and sometimes, az in the case
OF Ruth Wells, s25.
While children from = to Z years old are
most in demand. those from 4 10 10 can be
used in one way or another. Another
branch OF photography In which child
models are used 10 that in which beautiful
pictures, ideal heads and the like are sought.
These are sold to art dealers for repro
duction.
The demand for child models 10 not 40
great among artists as among photogra-
pliers. IL IL somewhat difficult for the
Little ones to pose as steadily az is necessary
for an artist, but before the camera they
can be taken in a moment in all their sim
plicity and sweetness and they are not
fatigued by the effort.
Girls are much moro desirable than boys.
Out OF the nifty best known child models
in the city not moro than one-quarter are
boys.
When asked what the requirements OF a
child model are a photographer said:
Beauty Is, Of course, the primal requisite.
While the infantile type Is preferred by
many, the piqusnt child has many ad-
mirers.
Girls, particularly blue eyed tots with
curly golden hair. snub noses, dimples and
round chubby faces are eagerly sought.
as they make pretty angel heads and are
particularly adapted for ideal pictures
for art and commercial purposes. They
must be plump.
Little girls with straight locks haven't
the same chance Of getting employment as
those with ringlets. To some children
posing Ia as natural az breathing. Thew
faIl into graceful postures very easily.
Others are naturally awkward DESPITE
their pretty faces and winning ways.
A 10 the remuneration which these
little artists receive IL varies to no great
extent from that received by their older
sisters In the business. An hours posing
generally brings from $50 to o and altar
an hours work the average child 10 gene
rally too tired TO st longer. though Ruth
Wells. n Of the noted child moes.s of the
city, can pose for two hours steadily with.
out getting weary.
sIt 20 understood that che children shall
furnish their own costumes. unless it IL q
character costume. In which cass, perhaps.
tho professional oostsrner win be called IN.
Most Of these children have good wardrobes
OF simple, dainty gowns used expressly
for professional engagements. But the
other day q dirty bus undeniabiy pretty
Italian child was brought I'm here by some
ons VIC picked her up In the street.
"A very soied and ragged cotton dress
barely covered the httle ones n~skedness.
but there was Q charm about the ND that
vas simply Irresistible M 20 1 took her
juss a. she wss. The picture viii be used
Cor o dyeins and cleaning sstablishmsns,
and II win DO . winner. II I mistake NOT,
BUs that 10 the erosption that proves che
kuls, Of coarse.
Il am besiegsd with applications from
tnothers who wish me 70 use their children
% models, and while some Of tho children,
lnsariy al Of them I might say. are pretty in
Shstr NJ childish fashion. few Of them arr
kufaciently artistic or picturesque to be
@ads uss Of. II . child Possesses those
qualities and In addition can take poses