Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
Gossamer- Winged and
GATHER F aimed
Butterfly Girl
Miss Vernon Is Not Merely Butterfly, How
ever, For She Deity Yields the Brush
and Palette and Dollars Come
Rolling in

loves paintings and drawings.
Vogues, and magazines and big
scrap book that contains rothing but
picturesque ctchings and illustra-
tons and colored advertisements
fill it.
Il just cut them put because
they're so beautiful" she said. "and
they're what saue day hope to
do. People are realizing that adj
vertisements must be as beautiful
and artistic as any other phase of
work"
almost like papcr dolls" some
one suggested, and she laughed
again.
Paper Dolls.
It's all like idealized paper dolls
That's why | like it, for quaint pr
per dolls were once my delight.
Perhaps it would not be tellins
to say that they are still savcd-
beautiful paper doll families odd
and unusual dolls, with various
heads and, last Of all, a whole family
of paper doll mice.
But Miss Vernon now is really
commercial artist-Aand because she
is in earnest, loves it, and can do tn
she does not stop with studio and
dreams. She, does not play at her
work, but instead seems to make her
work into play. Fashions she loves
best of all and the catalogues Of
various furriers and fashions are the
ones that make her eyes shine.
But l take everything" she adj.
.nlitted with cute little giggle. X
never turn down anything mot even
when / think it's too big job. And
right now I'm working on dump
that isn't BIT pretty"
Out from the depths Of magazine
covers she had designed, illustrated
booklets, advertising catalogues
came the dump" which proved ID
be sketches for new dumping ar
rangement made for a granary from
photographs and stern blue prints
that were strangely foreign-looking
to their brown-dyed, brown-haired,
enthusiastic designer.
But there were illustrations Of
everything, from ordinary unappeaI-
ing pipes to the most gorgeous Of
posters.
Posters for dances, for clubs and
the one big one for the. second Lib
crty loan that Oniahans saw for so
many months in the Burlington sta
ton. There were catalogues from
rubber to groceries.
Furs.
THE one that was>the most fun
was the fur catalogue" she decided.
1T was. the hottest part of summer,
though, and the house was strewn
with furs. We had regular fashion
show, and could design and paint
them just as | chose"
The silhouettes brought perhaps
the most deep and longest ''ohs" and
"ahs," for around her room were
perfect, distinct and clear silhouettcs
of soldiers whom she had helped en-
terrain at the various dances AMI /.
parties given for soldiers by the
clubs.
These drew so much attention at
the time that the Red Cross asked
the little maker to make them for
the Red Cross.
And her clothes-whether II Is
dress, coat, hat, of whatsoever il
may chance to be that is new, it first
appears in Marie Vernon's own lii
lie head. Then she sketches. de-
signs IT on paper, and from this
come all the little individnalities
that mark her clothes as her own.
But how, when, where and why
are the questions that seem to come
to everyone when .they see little
girl with fairy god-mother gift like +
this, and who was given likewise
the ambition to make the biggest
and best use of it, and who yet can
enjoy the butterfly life of the pic
ture" to the limit.
II started two years ago." said
Miss Vernon, "and the first man told
me ] knew nothing about CONNER
cial drawing and advertising. be-
!ieved him and was so miserable, for
wondered what in the world I'd do
all the rest of the years.
But finally | found one firm. and
then another. and new lines opened
up all the time"
She tints photographs, she en-
arges landscapes in color from pho
Iographs and, cutest of all, are the
little old-fashioned ladies and men
whom she designed and embroidered
and who were bought by New
York firm for deSgnsyin cross-stitch 4
IN luncheon runners and cloths.
She is an Omaha girl through and :
through and her mechanical train
ng was in high school, and after
out two summers at the Art inst,4S
ute IN Chicago she began her work
lere.
When it's1in you and YOU feel
hat you just have to do 1t, 1t does
,ot matter so much to you about
ne training as the chance to do h
love best of all the fashions. bur