The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-12
BY HARRISON FISHER.

,p7-bt Herald Co All RlGbe Rcserrcd1
n T happened aboH lvc years ago-that most
4 thrilling incident od my life. y woman was re-
4 snonsble for It. Indeed. you Will find that women
are responsible for most of the thrilling Incidents
Of this hfe. This woman presented herself at my
,ud,o one dav as I worked. She majestic
croanr,-a creature Of satisfying curves and dark
o,h.r ovcs-the kind You see In the madonnas
which the old fellows painted
She had Titan red hair, but not the sort that can
he purchased She had the kind TINT God gives you
So ,bon Won are born. She wanted know If
would take her ms a model Now you don't get the
rotber cvos and the Titan hoir-unbougbt-and the
cu,,re of neck and waist OF n peculiarly satisfying
subtety every day. l entreated her to chair She
had none Of the silent indications Of the professional
models Professional models, OF course YOU
know orc almost Invariably very worthy persons
hut they bear upon them the marks of their ParOcu-
lar nvves-just as We all do This woman was diff
ferent-
Her story was not unusual in these days oi eSpan-
sion and financial prestdigitation her 1almy was
ono well known and we'll born, If Its frequent mention
IN the wcelics which minister to society be an inca
ton 1t had been what is known as wealthy but
g., hood had become possessed OF the spirit of the age
pe had experienced the seductioDs of Wall street He
came he saw, but he did not conquer The result OF
his financial experiences was such that neither his
name nor that his Kin continued TO appear in tho
chnste columns dedicated TO society lie Went 10 WORK
AS clerk In the accommodating business house Of one
of his acouaintanc,.s His wife not strong. and
Pho amount which he earned not great, 1t was
naturally much less than whom he had appeared In
nurey decorative capacity The girl feared for the
comfort and health of the mother and bad heard OF
fabnlons sums which illustrators supposed 10
,ay TO desirable models. So she had visited me.
/ corrected her expansive conceptions as to pay
mcnt but accepted her services as model arranged
that she should 10 my studio each day at two
o'clock and returned 10 my moutons-well. let us call
lbem covers.
After that she came regularly / sketchcd her from
two to five She was a splendid model and charming
girf-witty sympathetic, sensitive. We wonld often
chat as | drew and We became great frlesds She
Ind travelled In the days when her father deco
We talked of tho acqualn;ances had met. We
placed them upon the metaphorical GissectiDg table.
When people do these things they the way
confidence So even did we become confidential in
certain hearty fashion. That is how came 10 know
her little romance
She Loved Man.
She was to bc married She loved The Hc
too loved her though that went without saying
She had met him ON an ocean Liner during what she
referred 10 as her "palmy' days. He was young
rich MISUNDERSTANDING, iu fact. which would in
dicatc him as desirable in the market for matrlmony
All this / know is purely conventional 1t would
naturally In any popular noGel Now. how
ever, commences the romance You VIII not have to
walt long
The man. 1T appears had blot on his 'scutcheon