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Title: Bohemian Paris of to-day
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, Édouard
Subjects: Bohemianism
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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oken-hearted and (loor, she put an end to herwretched life,—and Paris laughed. The breaking- in of a new girl model is a joythat the students never permit themselves to miss.Among the many demoiselles who come every Mon-day morning are usually one ov two that are new.The new one is accompanied by two or more of hergirl friends, who give her encouragement at the ter-rible moment when she disrobes. As there are nodressing-rooms, there can be no privacy. The stu-dents gather about and watch the proceedings withgreat interest, and make whatever remarks theirdeviltry can suggest. This is the supreme test; allthe eflorts of the attendant girls are required tohold the new one to her purpose. When finally,after an inconceivable struggle with her shame, thegirl plunges ahead in reckless haste to finish the job,the students applaud her roundly. But more torture awaits her. Frightened, trem-bling, blushing furiously, she ascends the throne, andinnocently assumes the most awkward and ridiculous
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A NEW MODEL AT GfeROM ks AIELIER THE ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS poses, forgetting in that terrible moment the posesthat she had learned so well under the tutelage ofher friends. It is then that the fiendishness of thestudents rises to its greatest height. Dazed andnumb, she hardly comprehends the ordeal throughwhich she is now put. The students have adopted agrave and serious bearing, and solemnly ask her toassume the most outlandish and ungraceful poses.Then come long and mock-earnest arguments abouther figure, these arguments having been carefullylearned and rehearsed beforehand. One claims thather waist is too long and her legs too heavy ; anotherhotly takes the opposite view. Then they put herthrough the most absurd evolutions to prove theirpoints. At last she is made to don her hat andstockings ; and the students form a ring about herand dance and shout until she is ready to faint. Of course the studio has a ringrleader in all thisdeviltry,—all studios have. Joncierge is head of allt

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