Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — PARIS MODELS IN WAR TIMES [ARTICLE]

PARIS MODELS IN WAR TIMES

Those for Whose Services Great I Artiste Once Fought Are Now Working for Mere Pittance. On the professional models of Parle the misery of the war has weighed most heavily. That is apparent in the studios of the younger artists. While in former times they could afford only elderly models of more or less faded beauty, they are now engaging for a pittance famous models for whose services great artists once overbid each other. Six francs a day is all these models get for eight hours of hard posing, with a short rest period at the end of each hour, writes Mme. Bernardini-Sjoestedt In Cartoons Magazine. True, there is taken up for them a cornet —a collection which gets its name from the paper scoop into which the coins are throwti —8, 10 or 12 francs, according to the generosity of the students; but In times like these, it doesn’t go any too far. A pupil of the Julian academy, speaking of a certain model, told me, “the poor girl certainly must have starved; she has lost at least 20 pounds; she had a magnificent physique and a gloriously tinted skin. Now she is flabby and her complexion is gray, yet we use her out of pity.”