Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-03-03

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ing club which has. it's headquarters
in an old~fashioned house on West
Fifty-eighth street, New York. Pass
this house at any hour during the day,
and, if you are lucky, you are apt to
see it's ancient door creak open and
the original Of your favorite magazine
cover girl trip sedately down the steps.
For the house is usually full of them.
1t has about $50 such enchanting dam
sells on it's membership list.
But they are to be taken seriously.
DON'T forget that.
The other day, a Broadway Don
Juan, bewitched at the sight of his IA
vorite bathing girl picture actually
walking down Seventh avenue-not in
a bathing suit, you understand, but
recognizable, acknowledgements
to accompany her at a discreet dis
lance as she turned down Fifty-eighth
street. When she left the pavement
and a up a pair Of steps, he stopped
in his tracks and stared in deep pre-
occupation at the door where she had
vanished
Suddenly the door opened a second
time, and a gray-haired, sweet-faced
matron came out.
Matron Delivers Lecture.
young man, what do you lean by
following one Of our girls?" demanded
the lady, quietly but firmly. "Now,
suppose you just run along back to
Broadway, where you belong. The
girls in this club are nice, quiet, re-
fined girls, and they don't want to be
annoyed, and, furthermore, we are not
going to have a lot Of idle, gaping
men standing out here in front of our
house."
Thus did the secretary Of the club,
as she later explained to the reporter,
nip in the bud a movement on the
part Of the male population Of New
York to give the club it's enthusiastic
Endorsement.
"The attitude Of the public, espe-
cially the masculine public, toward the
artists model" said the secretary sad
~, lis much the same as it is toward
the chorus girs-entirely frivolous. It
Is also incurably romantic. People
seem to have an idea that an artists
model is a gay young thing, who earns
an easy, if not luxurious, living by
posing for fascinating artists with long
hair or oriental fezes, if they have
bald heads. Now, as a matter of fact,
posing. is hard work, and until recent
1y the average artists model has been
poorly paid and has been given about
as much consideration as a table or
chair"
Getting Jobs for Models.
Here the telephone on the secre-
tary's desk burst noisily into her con-
fidence and she grabbed a notebook and
pencil.
Excuse me just a minute" she said,
taking up the instrument. Eyes, l think
we have just the girl you need-Miss
B. You know her? Too thin? 1
don't believe we have anybody plump
er. We consider her one Of the plump
est girls we have. About $50 pounds,
l should say, but tall and well pro-
portioned. Yes, ! think you might
be able to use her face, too. She's a
good Spanish type. Well, she lives
right up in your neighborhood-sup-
pose ] have her come in and see YOU,
anyway. If she doesn't suit, perhaps
we a get you some one else. Miss
NJ, whom you had before, will be
hack from Hoyana Eri1ovD
The secretary then explained that
the club runs an employment bureau
for it's members, who are all regis
tered and classified by types. Posing
is somewhat like private nursing; a
girl never knows how long her job
is going to last or how much money
It is going to pay her. Some artists
take a long time to complete their
work, and others work very fast. Some
q afford to pay a high rate for a
model, and others can scarcely afford
to employ M at all. But conditions
in this respect are better for posers
than they have v been before,
thanks to the persistent mercenary eff
forts of the club.
A good model can now demand and
collect a dollar an hour for her work,
at which rate some Of them make
as much as So a day.
Besides it's employment bureau, the
Art Workers club. as it is called, OPP
crates a restaurant on the first floor
of the house, which serves excellent
meals at cost, while five O'Clock tea
is served every afternoon absolutely
free. To this artists. as well as mod
els, r invited since, as the secretary
explained. the chief effort of the club
Is to bring the two factions together
for the promotion Of a better UNDER
standing,
Where Models Are Engaged.
Thus. on a rainy afternoon, the big
clnbroom Is filed with models draped
ah0nt the furniture In graceful ntii-
tudcs, while they chat and drink tep
with sossabiysinelinea artists. Thp
room. with lts ~?r.'s.ie hranmrirs and
comfortable i,Ntt, s"i easy chairs,