The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-18
WAX BEAUTIES.
ART IN WHICH MUSCLE SERVES IN
.---s-a.s PLACE OF GENIUS.
Initiating the Faces of Popular Actresses
Models Cast in AIoids-Beautiful
Heads to Set on the Dress
makers Art.
New York SUM-


Small revolving tables in some of the
show windows serve to attract crowds of
vfell-dressed women all day long. After
a.look at the table each spectator Is sure
to glance at a mirror at one side of the win
dow and then put up her hand to
give a touch to her curls or bangs or
back hair. u. On sthe revolving tables are Z
four wax busts with long hair done up to
show the latest style OF the Paris dress
maker.
"Those figures arc all imported, said a
gentleman who was formerly engaged in
the business. "Paris once had the lead in
manufacturing them, butof late Vienna
takes the front both in quality of work
and in IoW~prices London has one fac
tory, and few are made in Berlin, but
the work there is not first class The
leaders strive always to get up something
new in form and feature; to present the
face of afavorite actress, for instance, and
that is expensive
It must require an artist to make the
faces.
"An artist of muscle chiefly. They are
castin clay Enelds Sometimes popular
actress will consent to have a plaster cast
of her head and shoulders taken. More
frequently the cast is taken from some
sweet face in the morgue, and sometimes
model is made by hand. The important
thing is to get a pretty face, an attractive
pose which characterizes the milliners
model From the cast a model is made,
and then the mold is made from that.
When it is ready it is three feet high and
very heavy The caster stands six or
sight molds, well Oiled in row on
table in a cool room or out of doors.
Handy by is "a big tank of boiling water,
within which is suspended a kettle of
melted wax The caster pours dipper
full of the melted wax into the mold,
which he then revolves, and turns so that
the wax as itcools forms sheet an eighth
Of an inch thick all over the outside AS
IL hardens he goes on to the next mold.
first isyreadysfor anOther~coat. = The inner
coats.are made of cheap wax. japanese
isause6 to advantage. Paraffne and
terra alba are put into the wax to harden
ifffithe figure is. for warm climate. In
side Of all Is placed muslin saturated with
stiff wax, to give the figure siren 9Th;
AfteEthe cast is made the figure is washed
with lpenZine or turpentine.
"Then the eye-sockets are cut and glass
eyes are nut in. This is a very particular
lob The customer would not buy bust
Of Mary Anderson even, if the wax Mary
were cr6ss-eyed. After that the hair Is
arra1iged For this needle is taken and
theIhead ground off until the eye forms g
fork. a handle as big as lead pencil Is
put over the point. Big needles making
forks big enough to hold six or sever
hairs are used in those parts not exposed
to the eve The hair is combed out and
laid with the ends in layers on the wax,
and the.oPeFatefs punches the fork down
on the ends Of the hair, carrying 1t trmly
into the wax. A sweep of the thumb-nail
srnooths the wax over and sets the nalri
but around the edges small needles are
used. and one hair is set at time.
"Next the eyebrows are put in, This
still more DELICATE operation, and re
quires nice judgment In the selection Q
the right length and thickness OF the han
as well as the proper shade Then TIT
long, droopfng eyelashes are arranged, an(
given the proper curve. The operate
works in a room heated up to 80 degrees
FinaIlv the figure mutt be made up Wit
carmifie and bismuth powder. A stubbet
cancels hair brush rubs in the color. IN
colofing is delicate job, because tn
color must be in accord with tne stylff %
beauty, whether blonde or brunette. Las
of,hll, delicate blue veins are marked o
the forehead, and then the figure is sen
TO the hair,dfesser, who makes up tn
STYLE of the hair.
"What do the figures cost?"
"a wholesale New York importer
millinery buys the ordinary figure ip !; Par 3
for $40, but If it. has very light hair b
pays $45 1t is packed for him by pu
tingtissue paper over the face, then lay
ers 81 cotton batting, and then brown pi
per. This bundle IS then placed in til
middle of bundle of hay, which has
strong box around it. The freight to Ne
York is about 81 for each figure. Abol
one out of six is broken on the wa,
When the figure gets here the custo
house man steps in and says: This wa
figure is hair; If it is not hair, at least ha
is the component material of chief yalQ
and the whole figure is dutiable at 30 p
cent ad valorem.
"After paying the duty and allQWir
for the risk of breakage, the figures 81
here at retail for from SO to 800
they have arms for fulldress figures the
cost 1926. Twenty years ago they co
double that amount They are an expe
siye articles for q show window. L!
temperature of the window must
looked after so that they don't melt i
light of day fades the colors so that tn
must be touched up once a month or S
- If one cracks it can be repaired, The
are two Italians in the city who reps
figures, but the crack can never be whol
concealed Some of the milliners repal
their own figures
Evened Up.
New York letter.
In Delmonico's eating house / saw tT