The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-02
-opy,sh, 1925. by KnS, Feature. Syndicate. ins-

of yours. Your brain works better when you smoke.'
 An" interjected the artist, You're after a pipe dream"
 No, not a pipe dream You must take this seriously, MT. Christy. There might be people, you know, who would really like to know what you think of the modern American girl from the standpoint of art
 My husband thoughtfully filled his pipe. lighted it, and blew cloud of smoke into the air before answer ing.
 T gather, Mrs. Christy, that you want me to discuss The American Girl as she is painted. Well. to that I would say that many of them are or do. Why when 1 crossed Broad way the other day I saw"
 l waved him aside scornful1y.
 It's not applied art that We are interested in, however ski1ful, and please don't try to be funny. Leave that to the cartoonist. The idea Is this. You've drawn thousands ot girls in the last-how many years shall I say it's been?"
 Christy's First Model.
 You might figure that out your
 
 as the days of the big sleeves, but the butsle period was before my time. l remember one of my earliest models came to the studio wearing a shirtwaist with huge sleeves that fastened closely about the wrists and in the midst of her posing she screamed out that she was being bitten by a mouse. She nearly had & convulsion before we got that mouse released from her sleeve where 1t had some way got in before she dressed. Thre's little moral to that tale. Don't wear anything so absurd and unnatural as ungainly big sleeves. There was time when every woman, regardless of her height or figure, thought she must wear a big hat picture hats l think they called them. When the humpy little woman with short neck got one of them on she was picture--a funny picture. But she couldn't be convinced of that. If her willowly neighbor who was five feet seven, With d long slender neck, could carry one off she was bound to follow the same style. Now men are different-''
 "Different"" I interrupted indig- nantly. You mean they are all alike, They follow like lot of sheep. All wear the same cut of coats and trou sers and waistcoats. The only in- dividual note they strike at all Is in neckties and if they are really stun ming you can be pretty sure their wives have had hand in the choos- ing of them"
 Male Avoids Freakishness.
 That's the point he proceeded rryitI -1-s go following off after freak styles. have their personality outweigh their clothes. I ask you who wears the silly new hings tha are heralded by tailors conventions? Nobody but the jelly beans will fall for 'em. A real he-man sticks to the conventional, inconspicuous styles that make background for his personality. They find what suits their type and they stick to 1t. You don't see me wear ing a derby hat do you. Just because Guy wears one They don't become me. Therefore, they don't tempt me-"
 Tt strikes me that this interview is getting too sartorial. You're not clothes so much. Discuss types, Now there's the flapper. No -to-date interview would be complete with out a fling at her. You ought to ap- prove of her. She certainly goes In for common-sense things, low heels, short hair and all that"
 Mir. Christy snapped hls fingers at mo and laughed. "rhe flapper isn't type. She's an epdemlc-an ept- demic that 1 hope Is on the wane. They are as alike as 50 many Eng fish sparrows. If you know one flapper you speak to fifty without knowing which from tother,' Don't you remember that Sunday wo walked down Fifth avenue and be- gan counting flappers. all of them as alike aa pean, with their short hair and little fore-and-aft hats and scarfs and flat heeied shoes, and then do you remember what jolt