The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-26


for Dummy to ST., 200 for Pope.
ooh, yes" said Mr.. Louis Tussaud, 81
think can tell you all about wax works
how they are made, dressed, and what they
cost. First of all you must get your sub
ject. This may be from series of good
portraits, or the person represented may
give you sitting, or in the case Of crimi-
nails you can go into court, and in some
casa l have been permitted to stand among
the reporters while the condemned man
was being led to the seaffold.
''The best beesYax is used for the faces,
neck, arms and hands, which costs S. Cd.
q pound, and it takes twenty pounds to
model mans face. while a woman's needs
thirty pounds, as the neck and shoulders
have to be shown. Having got your face
you model it in clay, just as sculptor,
with the hair included. Then you take
away the tresses of the clay, and make
model of the exact shape of the back of
the head. The molder then takes it in
hand. After one or two stages each part
of the face is modelled, just like so many
pieces in puzzle, and shortly after the
cast is ready to have the wax poured in.
One hour elapses, when you pour out the
center, leaving the head hollow, and at the
expiration of another hour your face is
complete.
Each single hair is put in separately,
though when wigs are used they often cost
as much as Is each The eyes inserted are
surgical optics, and cost a guinea a pair
The body is of composition, and in order
| to get the outer garments to fit properly
every figure must have complete suit of
OF A ~,
age about e100 but in many cases much
more.
For instance, court dresses cost from
$3.50 to $500 each. Henry VIII has been
fitted out in a suit of original armor cost
ing $500. a group depicting a scene at
the Vatican with the pope cost es LOCO, and
George III in his jubilee robes would run
into e600.
Clothing is important. When the model
of her majesty in her dress as worn on the
day of her jubilee was prepared the queen
| lent the very things she wore on that day,
so that everything could be made exactly
as the original As to the clothes of Grim.
inals, l have known over thousand
pounds to be paid for them, but nowadays
it is not possible to get them. In one in
stance-that of Lefroy-the very collar he
wore, with his name torn out, so that his
washerwoman should not see it, was OBJ
| tanned.
sit is not generally known that the cele-
hrated picture by Sir George Hayter of the
Duke of Wellington standing beside the
body of Napoleon as he lay on his bed was
in reality the duke standing by a wax
model of the French emperor. The duke
took great interest in waxworks, and
would often visit the exhibition Of old
Nine Tussaud when she was alive, stand
ing at the bedside Of the representation oil
Napoleon, and always with his head I'M
covered.
''The bosom of a sleeping beauty is made
to heave by clockwork placed inside, while
the roaring of the lions in the group Of
Daniel in the Lions Den,' so popular il
country fairs, is done with trumpet Tht
country 'waxworks,' to speak paradox
ically, are not wax at all, but are in reality
composition, brown paper and plaster
They cost about GO apiece, and by chang
ing dress and wig will be made to repre-
sent anybody between an Archbishop o
Canterbury and the Lord Mayor of Lon
don. '"-London Tit-Bits.