Show ITHE LIFE OF AN ARTISTS ARTIST'S MODEL I I nI THE HIRED wen SPY Manya Rudina Russian born Is telling tell tell- ing in The Telegram of her experiences asJa model In New Yorks York's Latin quarteL Iter ter teL In the present chapters she Is dealing with her experiences with an artists artist's Jealous wife By Manya Rudina Famous New York Artists Artist's Model t was two days after our supper be before before be- be fore tore fore I went to pose again for the tor When I went in I felt that something something something some some- thing ts' ts was wrong There was not the same happy atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere of work to be bedone bedone 4 done and the joy of work that had existed ex existed existed ex- ex isted before belore But he greeted mep me p cordially and I be began began be- be gan to pose But Dut the ther r work worl did not go well weH The Tho work is not going well today I 1 Isaid said What is the matter Then he told me HANYA NA ROD that his wife had quarreled with him over me She Sho had been told that we weh had h d had supper together at the BreVoort Brevoort Bre- Bre Voort and her jealousy was aroused to such an extent that sho had accused him of infatuation for me She had engaged a detective agency to watch him That was how she knew we were together at the Brevoort I was very unhappy We Ve both knew that her accusations were unjust but I jealousy is a thing that cannot be reasoned with We Ve tried to BO go 0 on with the work but it was impossible We Ve could not feel feelus us as we had felt about it All AU the joy of comradeship and common interest in it had gone away I did not feel fell it possible to continue to pose for hImI himI himI him I cannot go on on I 1 said finally Iam I Iam 1 am so sorry But the work will be I spoiled I cannot have the same Interest interest inter Inter- est eat in int It Now that I 1 know how your wire wife feels all aU the freedom and understanding understanding understanding under under- standing that should exist between us If It I am to help you OU create a great artistic work artistic work is gone I will not pose any more You understand He lie threw down his tools Yes Many Manya he said Bald I understand I am sorry borry too It cannot be helped We Ve will have to give up the work I will leave it as it Is now Some day perhaps wo may be bo able to finish It Let us hope eo so And so I said goodbye goodbe to him and went sorrowfully sorro home It was my first experience of ot the I kind hind In the studios but by no means the last I I All AH se artists artist's mo models els have this experience experience experience sooner or later Mort 1 artists artists' wives are Jealous I 1 suppose that models models mod mod- I els and stenographers are the unwilling unwilling unwilling ling cause of more Jealousy than any other people The worst of it is that there is seldom cause for It Of course artists artist's models like all other girls do have love lo affairs and sometimes do fall faU in love with artists That is natural natural natural nat nat- ural enough People tend to make friendships in the circle in which they move Models work and live in the studios It U is natural should I find lInd their friendships there And of course there are arc cases where models I have stepped between artist and wife Just as there are cases where in all aU walks of life Ufe where young women closely close close- ly associated with professional men have stepped between n husband and wife But Dut such cases are scarcely more numerous In the studios than in the offices and banks and stores and shops Jealousy Is something that Is not bounded b by position or profession It is one of those fundamental human emotions that exists everywhere and 1 causes sorrow to every everyone one I knew that I had done nothing to cause Jealousy the work in which I was most interested had been ruined because a woman had wrongly suspected her husband of paying pay pay- ing attention to me I went home feeling pretty badly to find a letter from my mother which I Idid did not make me feel any better |