The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28

| must be the ease, for an expert hail planter will cover three bald wax head | each with luxuriant growth of blonde
 brown or auburn locks in day, and il | would take a magic hair restorer to ex- | eel that.
 Hair Is one of the expensive parts O 1 the figure. Extra long blonde hair with | a natural wave is worth two dollars an | ounce, and an auburn-haired wax shop lady can buy her red-gold crown for a | trine under five dollars, Short golden blonde curls are used as rule for chill dren, and to obtain these, as a matter
 of economy the straight hair is curled. It is wound securely around irons which are thrust into boiling water and al-
 lowed to remain there for time. On
 removal it is slowly dried in an oven,
 after which the curl is warranted per-
 manent.
 Upon the amount of wax used the cost
 of the completed figure depends, and
 the exhibition lady contains just as
 much wax as there is to be seen outside
 her clothes. She will be, according to
 the style of clothes she is to wear,
 one-half three-fourths or full-hust fig-
 ure, and she may have only wax hands,
 though for an evening dress she will re-
 quire full length wax arms. A first
 class figure of this kind will cost from
 fifty-five to seventy-five dollars for the
 wax part alone. The papier mache body
 comes from another establishment. If she has wax arms she will be more val uable by from twenty to thirty-fve dol lars.
 When all is completed and well made this wax lady has a long period of use fitness before her. She will last life time if she is treated like a lady, the manufacturer says as he views his handiwork with the pleasure of an art ist. She may need a little rejuvena- ting once year; may want her hands manicured and her complexion re- touched Certainly that is but little to ask for @ waxen beauty who devotes her life to the wearing of beautiful clothes. Occasionally her hands re- qulre a bath more often than this, and in big New York shop where a great | many figures are used a shopgirl can be | seen now and then wandering like some | kind of a modern Bluebeard from one | figure to another, unscrewlng the hands | and carrying the gruesome pile away in her apron.
 It sometimes happens that the wax lady outllves her usefulness to the par ticular merchant for whom she was made That is not a hopeless case, for she is practically as good as new after she is sent back to her birthplace. An allowance in the cost of a new figure is made for her return, and she Is fresh- aned up and begins new period of life Il new place.
 Wax women's heads are more expen- ;ive than those of men, though the aces of the latter are more difficult to make. The long hair of the women has much to do with this, the short hair which goes into the head and on to the nustache or beard of the mans face ,eing comparatively inexpensive. It is certain ruggedness in the face of the nan which it requires an additional kill to impart
 You can fiatter a woman as much as ,ou like" says the manufacturers peaking of his wax people as if they we're human beings, and it will be all ight but just as soon as you begin to latter man you spoil him"
 It is the general outlines which are ( equred in the popier mache figures l 5hich form the bodies of the wax peo- le and there is not so much to say bout them. For the woman 1t is al { ,ays the average figure, the same fig- { re which is required for the real wo- I len in the cloak and suit departments. | must, of course, always follow the l .yles of the day, at one time the high I ust and full hips and now the slender { ips. low bust and straight front. ( An increasing number of figures is cling used as the large shops develop i nd smaller ones follow in the line of t D. to- date methods. In no way can t mart cothes be seen to so great advan- { lge as upon good wax figure, where e own, coat and hat can be shown at { ice. Where big exhibitions of French r odel gowns are given in individual I lops very many figures are used at V me The number of figures used by s lopkeepers vories from one to two h lndred and fifty.-New York Times. t