The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-10-17
is QUEEN OF BEAUTY
HARRISON FISHER LAUDs THE
AMERICAN GIRL.
Type Immsssurably Superior In Every
Way Over Her French and Eng
llsh Couslns-Full Of Spirit
and intelligence.

New York-"Freneh women are ar
tificial, English women are wooden.
The American girl is the only type I
care to draw"
So said Harrison Fisher, American
illustrator, whose drawings of lovely
women are known all over the world,
when asked him In his studio about
the war that France and England have
recently declared ON the American
beauty, writes Nixola Greeley-Smith
In the New York American.
II have been away two months"
continued Mr.. Fisher, "and during that
time | made absolutely no drawings
Of foreign women's faces. II they are
SO beautiful could not have resisted
sketching them. made few sketch
es for backgrounds, and of two or
three old men saw In the Latin quar-
ter-one of them Robins model"
And you saw not single French
or English woman you wanted to
draw?" asked, incredulously.
"Well.' Mr.. Fisher conceded, Il
saw. one or two beautifully dressed
French women that might have looked
we'll In picture. But they were wom-
en- Of fashion and would not have
posed for me. American women are
Indifferent in that respect. No matter
where meet them. they generally are
willing to pose. / have sometimes
asked wealthy woman happened to
meet at reception to pose for some
Illustration was making, and she has
invariably said she would be glad to.
"The model that posed for this pic
ture.' and Mr.. Fisher held up draw
ing of a slender, dazzling blonde in a
black riding costume, SIS little
Brooklyn girl. She is college grad
uate and says that after she had prac-
ticed her music two or three hours a
day her time hangs heavily on her
hands. So she poses for illustrations
and earns her pin money that way"
Then Mr.. Fisher showed me an
other drawing, this time of tall girl
of slender stateliness, coated in fall
regalia, drawing on her long kid
gloves. This was the typical Harrison
| Fisher girl.
THAT is the type of American girl
/ like best to draw" he said.
WAS there an original Harrison
Fisher girl?" l asked.
"Oh, yes" the artist replied quickly
She was Miss Franklin, daughter of a
man who ran a small circus out west
paid her salary for years just tc
pose for me. But she got married and
gave 1t up.
you see," Mr.. Fisher elucidated
the American beauty is so cosmo
politan. She has the whole world tc
draw from. One of my models is the
daughter of Scotch father and ar
Irish mother, and she is a typica
American beauty"
"And If she had been born in Scot
land or Ireland she might not have
been near so beautiful" said. Don
you think the spirit of America, itI
freedom and equality, have much to d.
with it?"
"Yes." asquieseed Mr.. Fisher, II do
An American model mean pro
fessional model-can pose for won
an of fashion and look the part. Sh'
has only to put on the clothes.
French or English model could neve
do that. Models over there are
class apart. A model in Paris ha
one dress, one hat frame, on which sh
pins veil, and few stock poses.
American women not only hav
more beautiful faces-faces with spil
1t and intelligence, besides beauty
but their Hgures are much better
French women have over large bust
and very slender limbs. The Amer
can girl is taller, straighter, broade
shouldered and much more evenly dc
vsloped."