THE "STATUETTE" VOGUE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1922, Page 16

THE "STATUETTE" VOGUE

' A'*young! lady who, at the age Of sixteen, sind 'still attending her classes at aohool, is running a profitable novelty and giving employment to a. disabled soldier or two, must surely '■. haro' disfeovered something , quito original (says the. London ;"Daily Telegraph"). This' is what Miss Lettico Apporly, daughter of a. medical .specialist, has done, and *fr this moment the orders are pouring, in upon her in view of! Christmas demands from the leading WestWd shops. ■ Some months-ago, her father gave," her ' a fino fret-saw, and in the course of a fewl days she had turned out a dainty little figure upon ft, high seat to whioh she h*d painted a. merry, laughing face and a prettily coloured frook. She produced several more, and the family, circle duly admired them till come practioal person suggested that they might be turned to a profitable account. Unfortunately, as she was assured by the National Institute of Investors'—* body that is folloWing the lines of the similar- organisation in America—-thore 'was* no patent; that uho could secure, and she would have to rely upon the freshness and originality o{ her handicraft to dispose of it. That ehs has been able to maintain, and the seasonable novelties of the late autumn will include ithese little hand-cut and painted figurines, in . maHy variations. The development of a taste for tiny "statuettes". of children and, young people has 3 been rsomewhat remarkable in reoent months, but there is, of course, a more mechanical touch to those made from photographs than these, duo entirely t6 drawing and brush-work as their base, and the youthful oraftswoman has given hor creations a real touch of fanciful distinction.