Show trials of models what to a horrid man ig but one of the least entertaining incidents of the routine of the business as it is carried on in vienna is the torture to which the models are not infrequently put by then more favored sisters the customers and the spiteful resentment which they sometimes cannot help exhibiting in consequence the models of whom every establishment of any pretension ba from six to twelve are selected for their symmetry of figure and must be the possessors of slender waists sloping and finely developed busts the inspection of the patrons they will display oa their figures soy i lar costume which may be requested As you can understand a patron who has no idea of purchasing will often say 1 I should like to eee how that gown would look etc the unfortunate model will in the course of two or three licurs liours have to put on and put off mom ing dresses and evening dresses le turned around and around and punched in the ribs until her patience is completely exhausted and she will certainly look daggers at the woman who is doing all this she is not unlikely also to give vent in tones to her displeasure when satisfied that her persecutor does not on I 1 must confess it was with a malicious pleasure I 1 wa a witness to a scene of this character which ended with the long suffering model going on a striker and defiantly declaring she would put on no more dresses the proprietor who undertook to remonstrate failed to shake her |