Show trials of viennese model what to a horrid man is but one of the least entertaining incidents of the routine nf the business as it is carried on in vienna is the torture to which the models are not infrequently put by their 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 has from six to twelve are selected for their symmetry of figure and must be the possessors of slender waists sloping s and finely developed busts for the inspection of the patrons they will display on their figures any particular costume which may be requested As yon can understand a patron who has no idea of purchasing will often say 1 I should like to see how that gown would look etc the unfortunate model will in the course of two or three hours have to put on and put off morning dresses and evening dresses be turned around and aromnd 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 audible tones to her displeasure when satisfied that her persecutor does not understand der stand I 1 enst confess that it was with a malicious pleasure I 1 was a witness to a scene of this character which ended with the long suffering model going on a strike and defiantly declaring she would put on no more dresses the proprietor who undertook to remonstrate failed to shake her determination cor baltimore sun |