Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
WHAT WAX WORKS COST.
They Range in Price All the Way from s.
for n Dummy to ST.. 900 for - Pope.


They Range in Price All the Way from IS
for n Dummy to ST.. 900 for - Pope
"Oh, YES, said MIR. Louis Tnssaud, i
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
1set Tnis may be from series OF good
portraits. or the person represented may
give you sitting, or in bhe case OF crimi-
mails YOU can 10 into court, and in some
cases have been permitted to stand among
She reporters while the condemned man
was being led 10 the scafTold
The best beeSwaN is used for the faces,
neck, arms aud hands, which costs IS. Cd.
pound. and it takes twenty pounds 10
II odel q man $ face. while woman's needs
thirty pounds, rs the neck and shoulders
rave TO be shown. Having got yonr face
you model il in clay, just as sculptor,
with the hair included. Then you take
away the JresSes of the clay, and make a
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 a puzzle, and shortly after the
cast is ready - 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 - each. The eyes inserted are
surgical optics, and cost a guinea pair.
The body is OF composition, and in order
10 get the outer garments TO fit properly
every figure must have u complete suit of
l,ndercloth.ng. 4 figure costs on the aver
Hge about zoo, hut in many cases much
more
For instance, court dresses cost from
$50 TO 800 each. Henry VII has been
lifted out in = suit Of original arnlor cost
ing $500. \ group depicting a scene at
the Vatican with the pope cost -, 900, aud
George III in his jubilee robes would run
Snto ZOO.
"Clorhing i important. When the model
OF her majesty il. her dress Us worn on the
dav Of her jubilee was prepared the queen
lent The very things she Wore on that day.
so that everything could be made exactly
as rhe orig nal. A. TO the clothes of Grim
finals. | have known over thousand
pounds 70 be paid for them, but nowadays
Il is not possible 70 get them. In one iu-
Rrance-Jhau of Lefroy-the very collar he
wore. with his name torn out, so that his
washerwomau should nor see K, was OBJ
tanned.
at * not generally known kat the cele-
DRAFTED picture by Sir George Hayter of the
Duke OF Wellington standing beside ths
body of Napoleon rs he lay on his bed was
IN reality Inc duke standing by wax
model OF the French emperor The duke
took great interest in wavworkS. and
would often visit the exhibition Of old
Nine Tussaud when she was alive. stand
ing AT the bedside Of the representation of
Napoleon, and always wirh his head IN
covered.
The bosom of 4 sleeping beauty is made
10 heave by clockwork placed inside, while
the roaring of the lions if the group of
Daniel in the Lions Den so popular in
country fairs is done with trumpet. The
country 'waxworks.' 10 speak paradox
7cally. are not wax al all, but are in reality
composition. brown paper and plaster.
They cost about 90 apiece, and by chang
ing dress and Wig will be made TO repre-
sent anybody between an Archbishop OF
Canterbury and the Lord Mayor OF Lon
don. '"--London TiI-Sits.