The morning times., 1896-02-23
Waxwork Artist Hoped to Turn
Mrs Stanton into Nor
ton, but Couldn't
Shave Her.
SCALPHG PADEREWSEI FOR SPEAKER REED
One New Figure Costs $500, SO
You Can't Blame Them for
Using Makeovers.
DETAIL IN CEROPLASTIC

expensive. We get plaster head OF
people as soon as they become prominent
and lay il away in the workshop. Suddenly
they make a speech or kill somebody and
then we melt up the wax, color it pink,
II IL is a woman, stir III little red If
il is a man and pour il into the mould.
when it is in we let it stand until the
outside has cooled enough TO make 4 shell.
We turn it then right side up, and the
wax runs out, leaving the head hollow.
Then we turn it over To the feature artist.
He takes it upon his shelf and sIiaves
off the creases made by the seams-in the
cast And when he has got il as fair as
a pink rose or as smooth as red beet, he
reaches up inside the head with a hot piece
of metal and holds the hot end where the
eye ought to be until there is an eye socket
in the wax. OF course the place for the eye
has been provided for in the cast.
The eyes are fastened in place inside
the head, and the eyelids are moulded
by hand until they are dropping enough
for life-like appearance.
1.-THE head now goes TO the hairdresser
And the real work begins. If 1t is a
woman it is a long and painstaking opera
ton that now comes off, but if it is a
man with hair ike Calvin s. Brice.
declare / was tempted to wig him by the
time the hairdresscr had worked a day
and had only two inches of that ruddy,
curly hair in place.
The hair is put in by needles. Two
needles are stuck in the end of a stick.
The hair is pressed upon the scalp, aud
the needles bury it in the wax. When
We made Harrison we used an ounce OF
hair-which is a great deal for a man
but you must remember that, beard of
his. short and full of hairs. That took
time, and now they say he isn't going
to run. But we waX-work people have TO
take our risks.
we love Cleveland. He is our greatest
pet. If We could we would elect him. On
account OF his politics? I'm afraid no.
But you see he's such a capital subject.
Look at that Cleveland now standing
over there. He is dressed like bismarck.
on account OF the celebration in Germany
we have been raving. But Bismarck VIII
become Cleveland as soon as a dress
suit is put on him and little coloring
done Touching up acepiHplishes as much
for a man Us IL does for a painting.
You make a new painting with n brush
and you make a new man with a spatula.
Watch me later.
II am going to do funny thing now.
l have to laugh when I. do it. 1 make
Reed out of auother pubic character. For
Reed I scalp Paderewski. Paderewski,
you say, has a pointed face. Sc he had.
bat when we thought of making Reed out
of him we nodded a little wax around
hisschin aud checks, and now he is Reed.
The eIotbes?s Oh, we used Reeds old
manIkin. If Paderewski should run away
with milIonaire's daughter we VIII shave
orr Reeds cheeks quickly, put on his wig,
and have Paderewski skimming the keys
-sof our parlor grand piano, the one that Is
now being played by 'Calye in her OVID
home.
II am always sorry to turn Napoleon into
Mckinley, because 1 like Nap, and because
his clothes are such a bother to get off
and on. Those boots take strength. Watch
me turn Napoieons lock to McKinley's.
make man taller.
See he cried later pulling off Ma poleon's
boots and unsnapping his feet
Bring me bigger feet and longer ankles.
We will have Mckinley as soon as we can
get Il STlpSu SUI HUN IL IS
such a favorte, when we show him, that
we have to buy new suit month. Relic
hunters snip of piece OF cloth, and we
pretend we don't see them.
We have got to make forty figures this
week to get ready for our political opening.
We can only transform a few character
istic faces, you know. Do we use the
wardrobes over again? Oh. yes. Look, "
pointing to figure OF a woman kneeling
without any clothes on; "that's Eugene
at the tomb of the Prince Imperial. We
took off her mourning for Mime. Carnot.
But we will put it back on her, as she is
one OF the standards.
drop in again, as soon as we have
the nomination of Presidential candidates
In st. Louis and Chicago.
And say. if you like figure of yourself
I think I could fix over Guiteau-we,ve
never used him since GarfIeld's death-so
bod Ionk ike you.''