Show y S gi g gK y g r now HOW A PRETTY PARIS MODEL MADE A FORTUNE POSING FOR ART PHOTOGRAPHY v YX 7 JA i J S 'S A A tA A A 7 o A Uj WHEN WI HEN A YOUNG YOUX LADY in the Paris of today is sure about the radiance ra ra- vv diance of her tints and the purity of her lines she ought not to find nd it hard to set up as an artists artist's model While the middle ranks of the profession are re crowded great painters are always glad to discover radiance and purity ard rd able to reward it Where Mademoiselle 1 Lutece found difficulties therefore therefore there there- fore they were ware due to her inexperience and the general cynicism of blase se young young 1 men men nen that holds it is time lost to trifle with unknown voh volunteers who v o have ave no introductions I L 5 i In those days she did not call herself herself Madem 1 Mademoiselle n isell Lutece Lutece that name was found found for r her later by the great painter painter Raphael Raphae Colli Colling to signify the the- mingling l f J pid W World grace and repose w with th present presen t time me Pa Parisian isia chic and daintiness i constitute her charm Lutece w was s the old Greek and Roman n name Paris t 1 iX i he was an an orphan girl just out of S school ho l o of refined d bringing upland d gentle gen gen- gen gen- tle ways who sought to aid h her r only relative a maiden au aunt at whose exene expense ex ex- ex- ex pense ene the she she had lived all her life This lady living Jiving on a slender pension had bad VagUe tague ideas that the girl might go int into a shop Ill be a high-class high artists' artists model mode model said the girl to herself and started out to be one She knew that professIonal professional pro pro- models go confidently from studio to studio offering to pose ose What What sh sh did not know was that all kinds of ther other vain and idle girls roam through th thwart art world in the same way ray to the loss of time and great annoyance of ot working hard-working artists and art students This is so true that the majority of them refuse to look at an unknown girl without an introduction Thus it came to pass that the most delicately pretty face and figure in the world of models the porcelain prettiness of Mademoiselle Lutece was ignored in lit many a studio and she who Is la today the heroine of the selling best-selling series of art photographs in the world dropped new tears teals over ver new rebuffs daily That another heartless joker wrote out for her on a slip of paper the address of a great painter painter painter-it it was Gustave Courtois saYing Courtois You are just the one to finish his Salon picture a real Amaryllis Go to his studio make yourself at home and wait for him if he is absent The Th great painter was out when 1 Mademoiselle lle Lutece arrived at his ad ad- dress I will wait she said show showing ng the paper and the e janitress habituated habituated habituated habit habit- to just such appointments admitted her The spacious studio was empty in the afternoon sunlight Rich tapestries hung on the walls and valuable valuable valuable val val- r rugs ruS gs and Cushions littered Uttered the floor There were were were- ere ere- suits of armor carved wood cabinets wi with th paintings painting's finished finished an and there With Witha a sigh the tired tired girl sank on on- on ona a cou couch h to rest rest while hile waiting g. g I Time passed The tired girl had curled herself up up upon on on the couch she could Jump to her feet when she should hear a sound The only sound she he heard was that of a 3 clock u ticking ticking- on on- onmon mon nion monotonously ill Jill ll she slept sept Suddenly the sleeping beauty wakened with a start and stared with great scared eyes at a strange man man s sitting t ing near neat her e coolly co sk sketching k chig Hold that pose he exclaimed sharply do do not move yo your r arms Sprawl more there more there like lik that the shoulders down never mind your pour skirt want the bust and arms He o oh on 1 a few minutes s. s N Now w y you can an get up he he said What are you doing here The girl held held out the paper paper with his written an n it One of ot your friends said you wanted me that that that-I I should c come ne' ne and end wa t tHum tHum t Hum remarked the great painter Some o e one ne has been fooling ou you Two great tear teardrops drops chased each other down the Ie lef left cheek cheek of or 1 selle salle Lutece the Lutece-the the cheek nearest the great painter You have such unaffected grace he added and a beautifully modeled hand and ear not to speak of your general He spoke good- good Suppose you take your things off I should like ike to see your arms and shoulders |