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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1905)
i , 1 I II I. , .vv. . M f 4 - '- fc i I it 11 l W T -A I i ft -C S i Nt . ' - - - " ' 11. - - III A 1 , . v - j miwr- f n s A ' 5 K L L- -; ; i ; Li. 1 ' 1 tM :&j$ pis iM Wiom Gibson JJas Jmmorfalized. Whom A3. W gtiz c21 Calls Hie liicjliesf Type oBeaufi;S)WJom3ume-Jones Chose JaffisFavorjte Motel. OES it pay t6 he pretty? This In the qupstlon which the profoHslonal models are asking each other. Which Is better, to be born with a beau tiful face or with a fine set of brains? If you could have one and not the other, which would you take, Judging It commercially? Dors It pay to be a beauty? If you are thinking of becoming a professional model you must settle this question In your own mind before starting. First you must decide if you are pretty enough to be a model. There are various tents for this, and unless you can pass them you might as well give up. You must bo able to hold the expression." Bo few can hold expression. They . can smile, but they cannot hold the smile. It turns to a . slekly grin. They can frown, but when the picture Is taken the frown looks like a grimace. Next, if you are going to be a photographer's model, have you the features for a photograph? They must be clear cut and your profile must be good. Unless your features are strong and sharp; unless your eyes are large and full; unless your chin is oval and your forehead and eyebrows correct, you will not take a good picture. Jhings That Do Not Count. Here are the things that do not count In the picture. Tour complexion does not count A yellow skinned girl, spotted Kill, a pnle green skinned girl takes Just as good a picture as a peaches and cream girl. The brightness of your eyes Is no aid. It often happens that a girl will go Into the model business because she has spnrkllng eyes. But the sparkle does not show in the lens, and her eyes are no prettier than those of any other girl when the picture Is fin ished. Olrls who blush, sparkle, lisp, nnd scintlllnte are no better models than any other. Frequently there Is a beauty who " lights up well." She thinks she can be a model. But her features, when the camera gets through with them, are not pleasing. A girl wandered Into a photographic studio to get a Job as cashier. She had a straight nose, large, full eyes, an oval face, and a little, smiling mouth. "We do not want a cash ier," said the photographer, " but wo are In need of good models, and I should think you were one." He took a picture of her and It was a. brilliant success. Youth Is Prime Requisite. Are you young enough to be a model? In photography this makes all the difference In the world. If there are lines around your mouth, if your nose is set In deep wrinkles that look like parentheses, if there is a scowl between your eyes, and If your forehead hs lines and your hair has streaks of white, you are too old to be a photographic model. Tha camera Is relentless. Have you tho right temperament? Are you good natured? Aro you easily Jarred? When you have settled all the other points in the right way, and have decided that you are pretty enough to be a model, the next question is, Does it pay? Is It a good profession to take up? How much can you earn? Is it as well paid as the other professions? Does a girl model In New York, In I'arls, or In any other city receive as much as a girl In any other profession? " I don't think much of it for a girl." said a veteran artist, "for the reason that her beauty soon fades, and then lier business Is gone. It Is only a makeshift, a tideover, a something to keep her In pin money until such time as she can get married." . lint, supposing a girl thinks otherwise; supposing she thinks she Is clever enough to continue to earn money at the artist profession, in one branch or another, is It. as . a business, one that pays? It looks easy, but, like play acting, it may be a good deal harder than It looks. Is the studio struck girl as likely to make a good living as the stage struck girl? And how will she come out In the long run? Pay of Famous Models. Take the famous girl models. There Is Ray Qllmore, the prettiest model, many think, In the world. Miss Gllmore began to pose In IIKH. She was then 17 years old. She had a picture face, and she timidly volunteered to pose as a flower girl. She posed all the afternoon, and received $.1. The next time she posed It was for Ideal heads. There lias been scarcely a day since that she has not been busy. She has posed for more book covers, magazine covers, for popular music than any other girl alive. Her picture face Is always In demand. Ray Gilinore getH $." for an afternoon's work, he It short or long. Once she Is before tho camera she is as willing to pose for twenty pictures as for one. Probably the most popular model In the studio now Is Dora Bonn. Sin- h is a sweet face one of thoso girlish faces without a trace of the classic, but wonderfully winsome. Miss Bonn Is busy all the time. She poses mostly for hats, but she is also a good gown model. She gets $." a day, (3 for half a day. Miss Bonn has been called the Christmas card girl, because the Christmas card is her specialty. A girl whoso face Is everywhere Is Miss Lester, a New England girl with a plentiful supply of dimples. She Is an uctress, but finds plenty of time to pose. Does It pay to be a professional model? Ask Maude Thomas, and she will tell you " Yes." She Is of the big, splendid type, fully R fe.H 10, broad of shoulder, and closely suggesting 17." pounds of weight. She takes the most gor geous pictures of a stunning type, In handsome gowns, and, if she were so Inclined, she could pose every minute of every hour In fine clothes. She often gets $10 for a single pose. What kind of work pays best Is a question that is asked. 19 there a well paying branch of the business? The best paying branch by all odds is the newspaper end. The fashion pages are full of high class, well paid models, and there are physical culture pictures for which the girls get all the way from $J to 10 a pose. A splendid model Is Viola Schenck. She Is nearly 6 feet tall, slender as a willow, sweet of face, and full of expression. There are some who think her the prettiest girl In tho world. Miss Schenck will not think of pnsing for less than $10. She has received as high as $1.1 for a cigar label. She has posed for dozens of labels, and has made a success of every picture. Wages Some Models Demand. The regular price of a professional photographic model is $.1 a day. $;! for half a day. If she Is a good model she need never be Idle a day. But a great many of the models get a great deal more. Olive Jennings Cox, the Burne-Jones phi, would not dream of posing for $.", bur gets $10 fur an afternoon. The hottest day last summer she posed for the advertisements of a fur house. She got $J5 and a cab both ways for herself and her mother, who never lets the fair Olive out of her sight. How much can a professional model earn? Ask Mona Desmond, the little "Miss Dresden China" of the st.udlos. She Is fl feet nothing, weighs about 100 pounds, but la no exquisitely proportioned that she looks tatl In a picture. Miss Desmond will take $lo for a sitting, tut she prefers more. Does it pny to be pretty? Or is It better to be home-ly? That is still a question to be answered. Is a pretty girl who Can earn from $.1 to $10 a day better eff than a homely girl who doesn't know what she can earn? Which will come hut the richer girl? Study It out for yourself. ecsscsssstssssssssssssss Stow of Mam Sbander Eal am the Rajahs ireafl Diamond III3 is the story of Ram Chnnder I.al and tha W , I rajah's diamond. It Is an up to date Arabian I I Nights' tale in which the caliphs are all be JL I wlggej Anglo-Indian Justices and the genii dusky lissome creatures in floating sahrees. It hnles forth, breathing an atmosphere of mod ernized mystery, from the Criminal court rec ords of. Calcutta. Ram Chander Lai la a convict In the native penitentiary of the Bengal presidency. He has been there five years and hs has ten years more to serve, but Ram Chander Lai doesn't care the flick of a genii wand for that. He Is not grieving; he ,1s actually happy and the nearest he comes to actual pes simism Is to murmur In nonchalant Bengali that It is a bit " inconvenient." Ram Chancer Lai Is a child of fortuno and there are sev eral aspects bf his career which would make other chlld-en of fortune now languishing In occidental penitentiaries sick with envy. It 1 enough to make any struggling diamond thief curse the luck of an uncalculatlng ancestry that he wss not ,fcbrn and allowed to reach the flower of his career In India. Here are a few of the things that would Jar him: . ' Ram Chander Lai, professional Jewel thief, steals a $:20,QV diamond and prepares to retire to private life. He Is arrested and haled Into court where the diamond la found in his possession, but It transpires that the jewel cannot be legally taken away from htm. Secretes Diamond in His Cheek. The authorities discover that Ram Chander Lai carries ths diamond In his mouth secreted In a sacklike hollow of ' is cheek, and Anglo-Indian law does not permit the replevin of stolen property from the Interior of the body. Ham Chander Lai Is convicted of the theft of the diamond atid sentenced to fifteen years In the penitentiary, but he Itlalns the diamond and will have It when bis sentence ex , Fire unless the authorities catch him In the meantime with ths Jewel outsldo of bis person. Ram has his plans perfected for a precipitate emlgrat'on from India when he leaves tha Jail, and AngMo-Indian attor neys say there is nothing In the law to prevent him. Then, once outside of his native land, he will sell his $'20,000 diamond and retire from the profession. Ram Chander 'al Is a Hindoo not yet 30 years of age, and s most agreeaMe person he Is. He Is the most popular Inmu'e of the presidency penitentiary, and his fame Is such In Cal cutta that he Is rapidly becoming one of the principal sights of the place. He Is In dally requisition by the English trav elers who visit the Jail to see him, to hear the strange story ot the Jewel ahd ponsllily get a glimpse of the stone Itself as It nestles In tha hollow of his cheek. Felon Born in Sacred City. This blithesome felon was born In Btnares, the sacred city of the Hindoos. His parents were pariahs, and Ram while a youth was fagot bearer at the burning ghat, or cre mation grounds, beside the Ganges till his particular bent ba gan to manifest itself. He soon found, however, that a lightsome tread, quick, discerning eyes, and deft fingers were productive of an easier living and much more likely to satisfy his ambition to achieve fame. Before he was 'JO he was a hanger-on of various native courts In which he pilfered merrily and with more or less Impunity. To be sureie was suspected of the light flngeied calling, and from time to time he was caught with stlks ar d bronzes and Jewels In his possession, but he always manRgtd to wriggle out of the scrapes In one field and immediately move to another, leaving his reputation behind. In 1KW he served as an attendant In ths country house of a native Cawnpore nobleman. One day It was dtscoverel that a diamond with a history reaching back to the days of the Moguls snd valud at $."i.0n0 or more was missing from the princes Jewel box. The steward of the mansion, who was also the keeper of the treasure, was as greatly mystified at the disappearance of the stone as Its owner, and It trars- plred that the theft must have been committed at a time when the Jewels were transferred from the strong boxes .In which they were kept to the rajah'B dressing table. Without alarming the household the prince Introduced native detec tives from the English service Into the servants' quarters, 3rd after a week er two of work the operatives arrested Ram Chander Lai as the thief. Ram Betrayed by Female Servants. They learned from various bits of evidence picked up nmong the female servants that Ram had stolen the dia mond and had even in an unguarded moment exhibited It. But when he was arrested the stone could not be found in his possession. His room was ransacked, his garments searched, his friends subjected to the sweatbox and more search, but uo( a trace of the Jewel could be discovered. Ram remalntd li- Jail, his hearing being postponed again and again in the iupe that conclusive evidence of his guilt might turn up. Then by a devious channel came the " tip " to the de tectives that Ram carried the stolen stone In his mouth. They laughed at first, for had they not peered into his mouth nnd his ears snd his nose to no avail? But the tip came frcm a Mohammedan source In Allahabad and ran to the effect that Hum had once stolen a ruby from a Moslem trader In that place and succeeded In secreting It in his cheek till he made his escape. The sleuths communicated the suspicion to the court and made preparation? for another and more searching si rutlny of Ram's person. But In the meantime Ram's friends h1 been equally ns busy. It seems there was a girl among the rajah's women who enjoyed Ram's secret affection and who knew of the recullar device by which her lover secreted his looted Jewels. Her name was Lalun, and she had a not limited acquaintance nmong tha persona who frequented her master's house. Among them was an astute. Insinuating genius, a Portusueee b 'lf caste from the Malabar coast, who parsed as Peres Costa, a lawyer. To Lalun, Peres was the source of all knowledge, ths mysterious possessor of that clarifying force known as logic. When she heard that the native detectives had at last happened upon Ram's secret she flew to Peres and poured out the tale to his astonished ears. When she had finished Perez sent her away with the promise that he would do what he could for the man, and straightway he sought an Inter !ew with the prisoner. The result was that R;im and IV- ;z struck a bargain as defendant and attorney. The next morning Ram was brought Into court, where the authorities submitted him to another examination. They forced open his mouth, sounded the recesses of his cheeks and found the diamond. They were Just about to remove the stone when Peres interposed and stopped the proceedings. He proved his right to represent the prisoner as attorney, and then he commanded the attention of the court while he brought to light certain forgotten provisions of Anglo-Saxon law. Examining the basic provisions of Hindoo law, certain por tions of which had been Incorporated into the codo formulated by the English for the administration of Justice among the natives, the half caste lawyer proved that writs of replevin and search warrants under the Anglo-Indian statutes did not include the right to penetrate the Interior of a person's body for the recovery of stolen property. After considerable argu ment on this point the mouth was construed to be " lntrlor of the body," und the court of preliminary examination de cided that it could not legally be subjected to search. The diamond was there in the hollow of Ram's cheek; everybody knew It was there, but Ram was returned to his cell secure in his possession othe stone. Convicted ot Theft of piamond. He was, however, Indicted for larceny and remanded to await trial. It was then that he told his story to the Anirlo Indlan reporters. When a child he had had a habit of carry ing a pebble in his cheek for no other reason than that of nervous whim, stid in the course of time he found that a hollow was forming in the tlesh. This developed Into a sm 'll sack the size of a hazelnut, and presently In the cuurse of his early thieving he discovered that he owned a convenient receptacle for secreting a Jewel, t'p to the time of the ij'a- moml theft he had made way with scores of stones In this way, though submitted on several occasions to most Scruti nizing searches by the authorities. The assizes came on In Calcutta and Ram Chander Lai was placed on trial, defended by Peres, the half caste. Ram pleaded guilty; told the story of the theft of the diamond; the property was shown to lx In his possession, and then the trial settled down Into a long drawn out wrangle between the op posing counsel over the legal right to lake the diamond from the culprit's mouth. Voluminous briefs were produced by both sides and the sourcis of Atiglo-lndUn law were subject ed to such an overhauling and microscopic Investigation as they are not likely to receive again. But there was no specific right allowed by the law to Search within a person'B body, and there was no preoedent. Peres was sustained in hlB contention, though the cass dragged on from court to court. At last three Justices sit ting In bank decided thatthe diamond could hot be reclaimed as long as it remained In Its present repository, and Rain Chander Lsl was sent to the penitentiary to serve out his fifteen years' sentence. J Ccfrt Slill In Convict's Cheek. Meanwhile Peres Is practicing law with apparent success In Calcutts. He often visits Ram In prison, and it is said that Ram takes out the diamond and fearlessly exhibits to his attorney. Whether Peres has already been paid his fees from other sources or whether he Is waltlrg for Rum to get out of Jnll snd emigrate to some land where the stone can be sold is a matter of uncertainty. But it Is sure that Pt.ei Is prospering and Is adjudged to know Just a little bit more stout the mysteries of Indian law than the majority of the young students who come out from England to practice in the courts of the empire. And Lalun? Well. Ijilun hasn't married Perez, and whether she is waiting for th release and cfpulent retire ment of Ram Chander Lai no one knows. In fact, no one knows whire Lalun Is. t i .V I I!