Demand for Models in Art Photography
(Continued from Tage Five.)
Tor full Ave minutes," said tho photog
rapher, "I stared at that child. It was
rude, but I couldn't help It. After two
weeks of gazing at streams of distorted
ugliness I couldn't keep my eyes from
feasting on that dainty bit of beauty.
.When I did recover my senses and realized
my rudeness I apologized profusely and
then photographed her."
That was half a year ago; today this
giii 13 earning as much as $40 and $50 a
week, simply by posing before tho camera.
And she does not work more that four hours
a day on the average at that. She Is ena
bled to make this comfortable income be
cause she possesses, in toto, the require
ments of an ideal model beauty of face and
figure, however she may bo placed before
the camera; grace and lllheness; wlnsome
nes8, patience and power to hold all sorts
of poses, and intelligence and ability to
adapt herself to the pose to act the part,
and not merely serve as a rack for the gor
geous bedeckments of the girl of society.
One beauty photographer, who in the last
twelve months posed 3,000 different models
Bays that he found among them 'the num
ber less than fifty who camo anywhere neai
the Ideal standard.
This man, like his fellows, make a sys
tematic search of tho shops, the places of
ami cement, the streets, and even the
churches for models.
One beauty who has taken New York by
storm, and who Is now posing for several
statues for the St. Louis World's fair, was
discovered in this way:
The photographer was walking along tha
street one day, peering into the faces of
passing women, when the girl in question
flashed down upon him. His trained eye at
once told him that she "would make a model j
far abovo the ordinary, and he turned
around and followed her until she stopped
before a shop window to Inspect the dis
play. Here was his opportunity. Walking
up to her he said:
"Beg pardon, but I am am a professional
photographer In search of beautiful models.
I have ah been atttracted by your ah'
delicate type of beauty, and I ah wouht
like propose that you er you er will
you pose for me?"
The girl at first was inclined to be ln-
dignant and was on tho point of calling 4
policeman, when the man's all too evidenfi
embarrassment convinced her of his good!
intentions, and she burst out laughing.
Her display of merriment over, she gai3
she'd "ask mamma," and the result wa
that a few days later she appeared in that
photographer's studio.
Her first poses made her career. Other
photographers and artists beheld the pic
tures. waxed enthusiastic, hunted up tha)
original and swamped her with orders
And on the top of It all a well-known
theatrical manager sent for her and offered
her a remunerative place In the beauty
line of his star company.
This Is not an exceptional case.
"Of tho thirty or forty models that 1
am now working with." said a pho
tographer, "nearly every one has been
found In this manner. Let's see. I can
recall that I secured seven of them by
approaching them In the street, at the Im
minent risk of being taken as an lnsulter.
In the stores 1 got twice that number, but
there the task Is not so delicate. A woman
behind a counter does not have the fear
of the masher that the woman walking
along the street possesses. Several of tho
rest I engaged at the theaters, where my
wife and 1 go four times a week solely to
scan the choruses for suitable material.
"Fact is, the big stores are the best
places to securo beautiful girls, and the
majority of tho most used models are grad
uates from the men's furnishings and per
fume counters. They far outnumber the
actress models, popular opinion to the con
trary notwithstanding.
"The young, vivacious and pretty actress
makes a good model when she Is scarcely
more than, a beginner behind the foot
lights. But after two or threo years sho
loses her natural bloom, owing to hard
work and the Irregular lifn, and then she
can no longer be suitable for an all-round
subject. It's too bad, for an actress re
quires no training in how to act the part
and how to lend herself gracefully to tho
subject in hand."
Many a popular model is the product of
weeks of patient toll on the part of some
photographer who was attracted by her
beauty of face and figure and took upon
himself the task of giving her grace and
winsomness.
This Is almost as hard as finding beauty.
Often before the model Is trained the pho
tographer has wasted as much as $100
worth of plates on her.
When she is finally rendered perfect the
photographer reaps his reward for a month
or two. Then his rivals and the artists
who are always frantically searching for
subjects see her pictures, realize that a
new beauty has arrived, hunt her up and
proceed to tempt her away from the man
who brought her out.
This Is an almost Inevitable result, and
it Is the most telling argument that a
pretty, vivacious, graceful and adaptable
girl, anywhero between 17 and 2:! years,
who wants to cam her own living in a com
fortable way can do it to the amount of Ht
least $10 weekly by turning photographic
model. Tho nearer sho is 17 tho better,
and if she is a beauty of tho Celtic typo
and will not detract from the sparkle of
her eyes the spring of her step and the
ruddy glow of her cheeks by favoring social
pleasures above sleep, she will add consid
erably to that sum.
All beautiful girls aspiring to ba model?
should, however, bear this In mind that
many a beauty Is not beautiful in a photo
graph. Tho photographers have found this
out by bitter and costly experience. They
no longer grow enraptured over every fine
looking woman they meet; they reserve
their praises and their fllnis for her whoso
beauty has that indefinable essence that
cannot bo lost during tho various stages
of photography. She It is who Is searched
for the country over, and when found tho
land Is straightway flooded with her like
nesses in a multitude of poses and studies.
Scarce as aro women models, child mode's
are scarcer. When a good one Is found
he, like the woman, Is usually of the mid
dle walk of life, due, the photographers
hold, to the fact that the environments of
this class are more normal than thoBO of
either the rich or poor. The child's knack
to pose also not Infrequently lands htm tm
the stage in spectacles when theatrical
managers become aware of his ttinats
ability. .
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Queer Traveling Island
In liln recent address before tho Amer
ican Geographical society Elmer L. t'orlhell
showed a map of tho largo Inland Just a
llttlo north of tho Argentine city of Ho
sarlo in the Parana river. Tho Island has
for years been moving down tho stream,
narrowing tho passage between it and the
city.
Tho fact that the Island has moved from
its old position will not appear so straneft
when tho phenomenon Is explained. It
seems after all to bo a simple matter.
The vast volume of water coming down
tho Parana Impinges upon the wide north
ern front of tho island nnd tears away
great masses of earth from the banks,
carrying the sand and other detritus away
from tho northern shore. Tho Island so
obstructs tho current that an eddy Is
formed on the south side of tho land mass,
nnd Into this eddy most of the earth that is
torn away from tho northern bank Is car
ried and deposited against the south shorn
in this quiet part of the waters, so that
whllo the north side of tho island Is con
stantly wearing away, tho southern shorn
is being built up and extended, and thus
the Island is gradually traveling down tho
stream.
The engineering problem does not seem
to be a very difficult one. H Is proposed to
protect the northern bank so that it cau-
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not be further eroded by the current. Of
course it this bank is kept Intact there
will bo no earth to carry around to the
southern shore, and that part of the Island
will remain In Its present position.
Mr. Corthcll told some very Interesting
things about Rosarlo, which Is now well
Known as a very Important river seaport
of Argentina, with ocean steamers from
Europe constantly discharging and taking
on freight at its docks. It has grown from
DO, 000 to 112,000 in population in the course
of a few years. Vessels drawing twenty
ouo feet can ascend to its uocks, and it. is
expected to deepen the channel so that
larger steamships may make Rosarlo their
destination.
Rosarlo is the largest exporter of the
millions of bushels of wheat which Argen
tina now Bends to Europe. Mr. Corthell
showed an Interesting view of a small
mountain of tacks filled with wheat that
had been piled up foj carriage to Rosarlo.
We send our wheat to Europo from Atlantic
ports In bulk; but Argentina, like our Pa
cific slates, exports its grain in sacks.
Another picture showed the process of
loading these sacks on the steamers. The
sacks are hauled up lo a considerable
height above tho vessel, from which an
inclined plane extends to the deck of tho
ship; down this smooth plane the saks
slide Into tho hold, in which tbey are
stored.
This Is. of course, a very flow and Incon
venient method of handling the grain In
comparison with our elevator system, which
does the work much more cheaply and ex
peditiously. Mr. Corthell rays that efforts
are being made to interest capitalists en
gaged In the elevator business In this
country in the Introduction of this labor
saving Invention Into Argentina. It Is verj
likely that In the course of a t w years on
elevaor or two will rise on the banks
of the Parana at Rosarlo und supplant the
present clumsy method of handling expoM
wheat.-New York Sun.
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Herbert Cleveland, Lexington. Mabel Coleman, Fullerton.
nildra Condron, South Omaha. Harley Bellamy, Cambridge. Alice Batty, Hastings. May Prank, York.
WINNERS IN THE STATE CONTEST OF THE NEBRASKA HIGH SCHOOL DECLAMATORY ASSOCIATION AT SOUTH
t)MAHA, MAY 1. Photo by a Staff Artist.
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