The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-10


them have tried pretty much every other
calling. They may come from Oregon.
from France. from Sicily. from the Bow
cry or from Sixth avenue, but II they
earn living by posing they have always
one conspicuous trait in commons high
opinion Of their persons. This IS only
the natural pride Of every merchant IN
his goods. for the face or figure Of the
model is his stock in trade, according 10
the New York Sun.
One girl OF about twenty-five was
brought up in Maine twenty miles from
a railroad. She lived in a logging camp
where her father worked and where oc-
casionaHy old papers and magazines
reached them. Once she read something
about a model, and after that she used
TO cut out the pictures, not OF actresses.
but OF models. and paste them over the
cracks Of the pine boards in their 1t
tie room
She dreamed for years % being q real
model and posing for a picture Of the
Madonna. When her father died she
worked her way 70 New York. serving as
waitress in summer hotels For a while
she wandered around in the streets here
and lived about as the sparrows DO, but
finally found her way into a studio and
got work and was passed on 10 other
painters as A useful little being.
She has not the traditional beauty OF
the model just a small face. brown
eyes and certain New England prime
ness. but she loves her work and can
stand half day without stopping 20 rest
It's a business" she says same as
any other but ] Ike Il, and the artists
always treat me just lovely
Poses as a GRANDMOTHER,
There is an old. old lady weu-known IN
New York studios who has a few conven-
tionaI grandmother poses-head ben;
over her knitting. doing in her chair.
which IS often literally true, and reading
her Bible She has been a model for sixty
years and Is very proud OF Il. even claim
ing the distinction Of being the first orig
inai professional model in the town.
She once posed for an advertisement
Of a patent medicine which has covered
fences. stations ard spaces IN street cars
the country over You recognize her A.
once as belonging 20 that remedy. SEe
never gives you time 10 mention II but
tells you in two seconds. Ny face is
known from Maine 20 California
Some evening AZ dusk N a quiet part Of
the city you may chance on a tall. thin
man having a yellOwish face and a bushy
mass Of blue black hair. He wears a
hat Of such wide and romantic proper
JiORs that II lacks nothing but the ira
ditional plume TO transform him into a
Dumas hero He is a model who has had
much experience and has posed IN most
OF the large cities the world over.
he has small beadlike eyes. high cheek
bones. a narrow forehead and looks like
an exquisitely studied drawing by an old
master He is graceful and supple
/ enough 70 co anything with his body. he
! can speak a dozen languages all very
| brokenly and never fails 10 go straight
I 20 the bottom Of your box OF cigarettes
during mornings sitting
Fantastic and Unreal.
He travels with trunk Of properties
/ Ike an actor and has many beautiful
costumes Of various periods. besides foiis
and daggers which he sometimes looks
quite capable Of using. In a brocade coat
and silk tights with a mandolin slung
over his shoulder he is the French trou-
/ badoUr. or wrapped in the red robe Of a
/ cardinal with a mass book IN one hand.
/ looking slyly Up with his sharp eyes he
seems 10 belong 70 some hot blOOded
1 Southern tribe Of love and hate.
He has figured IN the pictures Of illus
/ traitors and painters. been used by deco
rators- and he loves nothing so much as
( 10 tea ga !-,w he posed for the Princess
/ Louise and another royal lady and how
many times he has hung on the line IN
/ the canvasses Of famous artists
4 He is fantastic and unreal. tremendous
I " impressed with his own importance
/ and must be handled deiicajslv when dis
missed II an artist grows weary Of his
methods let him have q care how he ex-
! presses this. for the model half in
I French half IN Italian. with an English
/ word or Two. viii say with a look -
/ SCoTn. Monsieur doesn't wish ne any
more. not wish me. heinz He wishes
some other model Heinz go away.
1 Monsieur will never succeed" And he
( departs. leaving the painter with some
what the sensation that an evil eye has
been cast upon him
Two Girl Models.
/ Another well-known model Is a long.
slender girl with a colorIess face and q
mass Of fair hair. who has the Hstless
grace Of Rossetti or Burne-Jones crea-
ton. In street clothes she wears a gray
ulster and hat with beGraggled plume
but take her into your studio and Iet her
rid herself OF these and wrap herself in
any bit OF gauze or drapery and she be
comes as beautiful as a river nymph done
by a master
There is another girl, noted for her
wonderful red hair. which shines like
FURNISHED copper in certain lights. She
has the greatest interest in the canvases
which she poses for and Is always beg
ging sketches Of herself. Once she went
90 art school for q week She keeps
watch OF the work % al the artists. she
goes TO the exhibitions. she speaks Wit,
the phrase of the studios she criticiSes
I and talks art whenever she comes 70 pose
When she was working for a weIl-known
/ sculptor he used her for an Andromache
/ After making the clay model ne started
to cut the statue from the marble.
Under his skilled hand the girls figure
lowered out Of the rough stone. When
II was partly finished a cha7woman came
I ill'p 'iiS es1-'-io ~ ''0s- .''iV St'pAet
and stared with her mop in her hand al
the marble with the figure growing out
OF il. then she turned around to the artist
{ and said slowly
l How did you know she was IN there -
4 When the woman was gone the red
haired girl said TO the sculptor She is
very ignorant. isn't shs2"
To which he responded enigmaticaIly.
Child could either Won or have an
swered her il would have been 10 reveal
the secret Of creation
The sorrows Of Man.
FrC-n the smart Set.
"Eey ten years I've been trying q
drown my sorrows-and they won
drown"
NO wonder. They've had time 70