The Washington times., 1921-01-09
Audrey Munson in an enormous tapestry oy er'er 4"
George vanderbilts country home at biltmore' N ~
Miss Munson posed for both female figures.

robt coming down out of the sky. There-that's the
verv title! Wen call it Descending Night Come to-
at nine Wen have all pannes ' and get
And descending Night" grew into wonderful thing
Of grace and marble and for the sculptor hghy'
priced medal and bought for the city Oh new 1orN
by its Metropolitan Museum!
Suddenly while was standing before the easel LOOKING
at the drawing and trying to see how the ARTIST had ound
night descending in my pose realized what Slae was
in-without drape around me- standing and tsltng 10
this strange man in that condition. just as II were
covered with my street clothes and talking to him III my
own home. ,
All my sense of modesy back to at once. And
all through my years the queen Of the studio3 this
same feeling to the instant an artist sald after
a pose, "NOw you may rest while In position nod
ing pose while scu ptor or painter worried, thought
Of myself only modela mere piece OF human flesh
The moment the artist dropped his brush or maet or
modelling tool became the human younG woman again.
ashamed to have my body As this feeling came to
then rushed behind the screen, blushing turiously
and got into my clothes
AS left the studio that morning happy in the
thought that was to have work at once wondered
what it the artist in my unconscious pose-he
drapng of my body-which inspired HIM with such
beautiful idea that Of the night coming down out OF The
sky settle upon the world below and how he had seen
in me the suggestion that night such beautiful maid
emily thing that only the pure lines Of woman form
could best interpret it, Aftefward learned many things
about the artists points Of view in association with tao
feminine form which those who not familiar with the
studios possibly have thought Of learned to see
in the female body hidden beauties which few but the
trained artistic mind can detect.
learned for instance the studio of of the most
gifted judges Of female beauty in the world, why artists
would not allow to shoes with the high French
heels why not permitted even, to have the dainty
hghheeled "mules'' liked to about my bedroom
at home and which popular with women to-day.
And learned too Of the eternal search by artists be
ginning in the time of the ancient Greeks for two little
dmpes nesting in the flesh of the back just the hips,
and why when it that these two dimplcs were
pressed by kind nature into my back they proved to be
as valuable to Government bonds. Dimpes, had
always thought, the be- lty marks Of the girl who
could bring them into play al the Of her mouth
when she smiled had none of these. But discovered
that the best dmples Of ALL rarcst and the most beautiful
according to the sculptor and painter those hidden
where none and which SO few women possess.
And learned that the greatest of foes to feminine
beauty the kind Of garters most women wcar-the
garter that holds the stocking from the corset or from
belt at the waist; and why few young wemen of to-
day know what to do with their hands, how to carry them
or how them In company because their clothes are
in the way. And, too learned and saw some Oh The
tragedies that come whose beauty is their mis-
fortune and Of the strange craving so many wealthy
women have to themselves depicted, in canvas or
marble or bronze in the altogether OF these things
shall tell from Sunday to Sunday GA these pages
he Continued Merit SandCu)