The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
WAX LADIES OF SHOW WINDOWS.
Many of Them Works of Art and Ex-
 pensive.

Many of Them Works of Art and Ex-
 pensive.
 l A great change has taken place with
 in the last few years in the wax ladies l who live in our shop windows At
 one time each one was exactly like her
 neighbor in hair and complexion, usu-
 ally golden haired blonde, who en- deavored to educate the taste of women
 shoppers by wearing the smartest of
 frocks, hats and coats. But there were disadvantages in this. The wax blonde was obloged to year in the course of her varied existence all sorts and kinds of coiors and materials whether they l suited her particular style of beauty or not. To be sure she was well able to do this on account of her fine waxen complexion, but at the same time it did not give much of an idea to the brunei shopper of the effect of certain shades and colors which she considered her own. She complained, and so there has been a gradual revolution in the wax figure world.
 The improvement which has taken place, it is said, is largely due to the
  made in Germany and France are now home products and are exceptionally well made. Figures which were at one time nothing more than overgrown wax dolls now show character and express sion. There is q wide variety of types, and even gray haired women are repre- scented in wax. It is all in line with the efforts of the merchants who are con- stantly wing with each other in the methods of attractively showing the beautiful goods they sell,
 There is as much change of style in show window figures as there is in the fashions in women themselves, As at times the blonde. the brunei or the au- burn-haired woman is the most ad- mired, so the different type of wax window ladies have their day. Just at present there Is q special demand for | auburn-h haired beauties, and they are | the most expensive of all. There is q | wide selection of lay figures from which | a merchant may make a choice-blondes | of three different shades, three differ | ent tones of auburn-haired women, and | brown, light brown, olive and dark | brown, to say nothing of the gray, | which latter is less often required than any of the others.
 For general all-round use the golden f blonde Is always popular It is per haps for the same reason that the ! blonde doll with haxen curls is the fa- vorite with the child that the blonde wax figure window lady is to be seen year in and year out, The darkest of he brown haired figures are more often 1 lsed than the nondescript brown which gives neither blonde nor brunei tones. Children of the wax-figure world are blondes, and are in great demand in sizes of from two to six years.
 It is a work of art to make wax igure, and it Is expensive when fin shed The same methods are used as or the figures representing famous peo- ,le in the musees, though there are de- ,rees of excellence, and 1t is simpler to make a model face than a copy from a ,icture or cast, as is done when a like less is required. A specially prepared yax is used which will stand twenty egrees below zero of cold weather and he hundred and twenty-five degrees of eat, extremes WhlCh would nave eltuel canned the faces of the old-fashioned lax dolls with cracks or dissolved their ' ounded cheeks into flesh-colored tears. l teal hair which comes from Germany ( nd Italy is used, and it is planted d'-
 technical term-into their heads a l air at time; their skins are delicately nted in pretty pink tones, the hair is ressed in the style of the day, and the ( cad. when 1t IS complete, IS very life | ke. ( All the more delicate work on the fig res is done by women, and in little { in New York from which ( lese waxen models are sent out, not / nly into different parts of the United ( tates, but to Europe as well, a half S 0zen pretty young girls are kept con- | antly employed. The greater number | 7 them are hair planters and dressers, e nd in the former work their fingers ! c eye with lightninglike rapdity. This |
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