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Show MISS VENUS WOULD BE POOR MODEL, GO-: STENOGRAPHER (By lnternatiton.il News Service.) LONDON, Aug. 7 Picture It to your.self-Ver.us de Milo walking! ' the streets of London s fashion plnte Wesi End an 1 Jobless It Illiulit hanncn Thai li it would inovitnh.lv h.-nmon if lUn xlotui.. I beaut of ac.-s past came to life- and followed in tli- loot stops of her mod- I ern Blsten n beauty, who sell gOWQfl by wearing diem and making them! things of loveliness. Miss de Miio might find other work, but she could never be a Man nequin in these days. It Isn't so long since a bold male critic of the arts, past and present, voted her to be better fit led. physically, for a wet nurse than for a model of beauty by present standards. The dressmakers of the West End don't go so far as that, but they read her out of the beauty Class, and uncompromisingly they do It, too. "If Venus came to me for a job," said Mine. Hay ward, of Bond street, "I could give her nothing to do except display tea gowns or cloaks It would be almost impossible to dress her gracefully, except in loose-flowing draperler." "The Venus of Milo would look a fruinp unless she were swathed in a gown of black velvet,'1 testified Miss Howes, manageress of the Maison Alexander "I agree- with tho artist tv ho said that dressmaker's dream is often the BCUlptorS nightmare ' The slim, straight figure looks Its best in modern clothes, whereas tho classic figure would often look merely dowdy in a frock that was considered a masterpiece." Venus, returned, enrolls In a school for stenographers |