| Show of MODELS artists know liow constantly persons unaccustomed to sitting or rather standing in the fatiguing attitudes required are attacked by fainting fits so suddenly as 0 o require a constant look ont on the part of the painter for tha premonitory symptoms that he knows so well A deadly pallor overspreads over spreads the face the lips become colorless and unless a change of attitude is afforded at once the model falls to the bloor and work is over for the day on the occasion 1 speak of a boy was standing for me in an easy position with his hands in his cockpits pock pits 1 was aej work en his face and saw no sign in his complexion i when without moving bis hand from chiy trousers be fell like one shot I 1 have known soldiers boxers and the like powerful oam men unable to endure the atrain of standing still in one position though the action may be simple and easy enough for a quarter of an hour without sensations which they declare they have never felt before incapacitating them for a time in one of my friends studios a girl fell into a stove and disfigured herself for life |
