WAX

is the origin—animal, name given to certain substances of very different vegetable, and mineral c.g. bees’-wax, palm-wax, and ozokerite. The bees’-wax; is of an impure yellowish colour in the natural state after it has been collected from the boiled honeyO comb, and therefore for many purposes it has to be bleached. Only solar bleaching will suit wax that is very important in 4 cla ical * times for facing the writing tablets and for modelling, and the latter use has been perpetuated by establishments like Madame Tu aud’s, and in tailor’s 4 dummies.’ So-called ‘wax’ candles are very generally made of such cheap substitutes as stearin and ceros in on the continent, but in Great Britain most are made of paraffin.