Wanted A Good Foot

Modela are an important part oí a sculptor's need. I doubt whether ia this particular we diöer froru our Qreek predecessors, for we read of choice presents, snch aspeacocks, given by Phidias to bis inodels, showing how much h valuedthem, presumably becanse Jt was as diñicult then as now togetgood ones. To be a rnodel is a business of itself, and when we reraember the nurnber of art schools there are, even in London alone, and the many artistswho are entirely dependent upon them, it may be realized what a large body they must be. The men are mostly Italians, chiefly, I am told, from the neighborhood of Naples. The women are, as a rule, English and have of ten sat from babies. To find a well formed foot is altnost an impossibility among the best of them, owiug to the long cramping in boots, but a friend once told me that he had a cast of the foot of an Indian woman that was as beautiful as the foot of a Greek statue. Our English models lack often the suppleness of figure that distingoishes more sonthern races, such astheltalian, which is partly accounted for by the heavy, ciiruberscmie clothes cur climate necessitates. But such as they are we have to make the best of them, and a really gcjod one is eagerly sought aft er.