The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-29
CHILDREN AS MODELS
THEIR BEAUTY MADE USE OF by
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Children Able TO Earn From $i2 10
20 Week by Posing--Littlc Girls
With Chubby Faces and Curly
Hair Sought Most.

mar sought Most.
So great has become the demand
Tor child models IN the last few
years that according to New York
photographer almost any pretty child
can command an engagement. II
not infrequcntly happens, says he,
that the support OF families rests
upon the small shoulders ana cases
| in which children earn sufficient net
only for their maintenance and cloth
ing but also for their education are
plentiful.
1t is perhaps in the line OF COM
merclal photography that the best
| field for child models Hes Com-
mercial photography supplies pic
lures for advertising the product. Of
I business and Misunderstanding houses,
Children who pose for these Illus
trated advertisements earn anywhere
| from Sl2 to IA a week and eo2ie-
! times, as In the case OF Ruth Wells,
s25.
While children from 2 to years
old are most In demand. those from
4 to 10 can be used in one way or
another. Another branch OF photo
graphy in which child models are
used is that in which beautiful pic
lures, ideal heads and the like are
sought. These are sold to art
dealers for reproduction.
The demand for child models il
not so great among artists as amons
photographers 1t is somewhat diff
cult for the little ones TO pose "a
steadily as is necessary for an artist.
but before the camera they can
be taken in a moment in al their
simplicity ana sweetness ana they
are not fatigued by the effort.
Girls are much more desirable
than boys. Dat of fifty best known
models in the city not more than
one-quarter are boys.
When asked what the require
ments Of a child model are a photo
grapher said:
Beauty is, Of course the primal
requisite. While toe MANTLE tyne
is preferred by many. the plquant
child has many admirers
Girls, particularly blue-eyed tots
with curly hair, snub noses, csmpies
and round chubby faces are eagerly
sought as they make pretty angel
heads and are particularly adapted
for ideal pictures for art anc COM
merciat purposes. They must DO
plump.
Little girls with straight locks
haven't the same chance Of getting
employment as those with ringlets.
To some children posing is as natural
as breathing They fall into grace
full pastures very easily Others arc
naturally awkward despite their
pretty faces and winning ways.
AS to 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 bring3
from $3.50 to SO and after AN hours
work the average child is generally
too tired to sit longer, though Ruth
Wells, one of the noted child modes
of the city. can pose for two hour1
steadily without getting weary.
II is understood that the chill
dren shall furnish their own cos-
tunes, unless It. is character cos
tune, in which case, perhaps the
professional costumer will be called
In Most of these children have
good wardrobes of simple. dainty
gowns used expressly for professional
engagements But only recently
dirty but undeniably pretty Italian
CHILD was brought in here by some
one who picked her up in the street
"A very soiled and ragged cotton
dress barely covered the little ones
but there was charm
about the kid that was simply ire
sistible and so took her just as sh0
was The picture will be used for
dyeing and cleaning establishment.
and It will be a winner. if ! mistako
not. But that is the exception thst
proves the rule, of course.