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Show I I'rofeiwlonal IVmlne. One of tho foremost women artists of Now Y'ork is emphatic in insisting that a majority of studio-models are modest, clever women. Sho says the ordinary price paid is $1 a morning, or thirty-three thirty-three and one-half cents an houf. posing pos-ing thirty and resting fifteen minutes. It is tremendously trying work, necessitating neces-sitating considerable training to make a subject available for an artist's purposes. pur-poses. Prettiness of form and feature are strong recommendations to favor, but women of heroic mold with characteristic charac-teristic and marked , faces, are prized above beauties, and aro often ablo to command very high rates. As an instance in-stance of the possibility of the profes-siou. profes-siou. she told of two little Italian boys, brothers, who support a family of nine tnombors solely with money earned in this way. They are charmingly handsome hand-some chaps, with lustrous southern eyes. They sit for pictures of fruit-venders, fruit-venders, acolytes, boy princes, etc. So easily and surely do the young foreigners foreign-ers make a living, that with the abandon aban-don common to tholr race, both parents havo resigned labor, and with fivo other children subsist upon the studio profit of tholr two eldest sons. From tho Illustrated American. |