Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — WOMEN WHO POSE. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN WHO POSE.

The Secrecy That la Maintained Byy Artiata About Their Modela. Every artist keeps In his studio little book that he guards most sacredly. It contains his list of models. In some art studios of New York the “model book” contains 500 names of men and women who earn their living by posing. The betrayal of a single - name by the artist would injure his reputation with the craft and make it difficult for him to employ the better class of models.

The chief reason for this secrecy is the fact that the outside world is prone to look askance at professional models. Most of them, however, are perfectly modest and good women, whose business, though apparently violating the letter of morality, preserves its spirit. In fact, behind the model's professional career is little but the commonplace:

American models are characterizedby the same qualities of self respect and independence as American art. The principal fault artists and illustrator® find with them is their lack of expression, but for beautiful figures and perfect features they are unexcelled. The best models In the world are found in France and America, where the most general, intelligence prevails In the class from which they chieflycome. In America many of them belong to middle class families who havemet reverses.