New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1918, Page 6

_ THI $18.00 SUITS $20.00 SUITS $24.00 SUITS $25.00 SUITS $28.00 SUITS $30.00 SUITS $32.00 SUITS $33.00 SUITS $35.00 SUITS $36.50 SUITS $37.00 SUITS $38.00 SUITS $40.00 SUITS $45.00 SUITS TYPES OF M HEN Aladdin gave new lamps for old he did noth- ing very wonderful. But when humanity, sympa- | . thizing with the misfor-| tunes of others, replaces war-torn, seared faces with new—when it hides | honorable disfigurations gained in the | defense of liberty—then there is a story worth while the telling. This, then, is the story of “Old Faces For New.” It is a recital pa- thetic and pitiable; it s a tale of men's glory and woman's devotio! it 1s a =ong of sympathy and humanity— of practical Christianity—of material- ized altruism. Since time began wounds received in battle were considered badges of hon- or. Men gloried in them; women ad- mired. But that was before the com- irg of modern armament—of shell and shrapnel—of mines and polson gas. In | those other, more humane days, scars of battle wounds were considered sa- | cred. As the late William Shakespeare | —or was it Bacon?—said: “He laughs at scars who never felt a wound.” But things have changed since then. | Not that scars are not marks of re-| spect, but some mutilations are so re- | pulsive as to evoke horror mixed with | pity. Wounds in the face and head | leave the ugliest marks, In the pres- | ent war hundreds and thousands of | fine men have been torn and mutilated | until they scarce resemble human be ings. Photographs received in this country show men with their lower | Jaws shot away, with their lips torn | off, with half their face gone. It Is these men who were a problem for their fellow men. They—the mu- tiles, as the French call them most aptly—had the sympathy of their friends—of the grateful public. But something more tangible than aympa»l | Mrs. | al repute. DAILY $14.40 $16.00 $19.20 $20.00 $22.40 $24.00 $25.60 $26.40 $28.00 $29.20 $29.60 $30.40 $32.00 $36.00 MRS. ANNA COLMAN LADD WORKING ON PORTRAIT MASK thy was needed—something which would hide their awful s and dis- figurations. To replace a missing arm or leg or hand or foot is easy enough. But to replace a face or the part of one—that was a real problem. And a woman solved that problem! It Is true that a mere man, Captain Derwent Wood, an English sculptor, conceived the idea of making masks for the mutiles, but it remained for Maynard Ladd, an American seulptor, living in Paris, to perfect the work and to materialize masks which would replace torn and missing tissue s0 naturally that the wearer would be able to live out his life in comparative happiness. Mrs. Ladd is an artist of internation- Born in Philadelphia, she was educated in private schools, going to Paris and Rome, where for more than twenty years she worked with| Professors Ferrari and Gallori. She| exhibited in the Paris salon, in this country and in London. In 1913 Jbe| exhibited forty bronzes at s | in New York and at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. She received an honorable mention for her work at the Panama Exposition. Incidentally she Is an author, having published sev- eral novels, | Captain Wood’s original conception | was to make a mask to fit those por-| tions of the face missi If the chin was missing then the mask would ex-| tend only over the chin. If the cheek was missing then the scarred portion would be covered. The question to be| solved by Mrs. Ladd was in the manu facture of the masks. They had to be light, yet strong, of some composition which would not tarnish and would re- | tain the color placed upon Its exterior, surface. and | Mrs. Ladd takes a plaster cast of the After considerable experimentation Mrs. Ladd hit upon thin copper as hav- ing sufficient strength. Then she de- cided to have the base plated with sil- ver to give Jt a better finish. Next came the method to be employed in fit- ting the masks. Consultations with surgeons brought to light the fact that nothing could be done with mutiles until several months after their wounds had healed completely, ns the tissues contracted even after complete clcatri- zation had taken place. BEventually a perfected method was evolved. When the mutile has been nursed back to health and the ti e muscles have done contracting HERALD, FRIDAY, torn face. he received the wounds. From the photograph and the plaster cast Mrs, Ladd, gulded by her sculp- tor's art, reconstructs another plaster cast of only those parts which are mu- tilated. Then a copper mask {s made one-sixteenth of an inch thick. Then comes the first firting. If the mask so far as finished fits| properly then It is silver plated. Next comes the question of making the mask appear natural. If eyebrows are need-| ed they are inserted hair by hair; if| If possible she obtains a| photograph of the mutile taken before | eyelids are missing artificial eyelids mask to match the complexion of the {adorn the mask, with a hole through|unmutilated part of the face. them that the wearer may see; if eyesithe work and labor of love is done. DECEMBER OVERCOATS $18.00 OVERCOATS $20.00 OVERCOATS $24.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 OVERCOATS $28.00 OVERCOATS $30.00 OVERCOATS $32.00 OVERCOATS $33.00 OVERCOATS $35.00 OVERCOATS $36.00 OVERCOATS $38.00 OVERCOATS $40.00 OVERCOATS $43.00 OVERCOATS $48.00 OVERCOATS $50.00 OVERCOATS $55.00 OVERCOATS ADJUSTING THE_MASK are missing altogether then artificial eyes are placed in the mask. When the mask is complete the mu- tile goes for a final fitting. Mrs. Ladd sts the mask*or has one of her ex- istants attend to the task. The is held In place by “fake” eye- s and strings or by a wig, the hing mechanisin being so camou- flaged as to be practically invisible. But the work is not yet done. One| of the most important operations in Its| manufactuee is in the coloring. Mrs.| Ladd takes her palette and with spe- cially prepared pigments colors the Then | $14.40 $16.00 $19.20 $20.00 $22.40 $24.00 $25.60 $26.40 $28.00 $28.80 $30.40 $32.00 $34.40 $38.40 $40.00 $44.00 Then the mutile walks out of Mrs. Ladd’s studlo a new man. He is no longer a mutile—an object of horror mingled with pity. He is a human be- ing again, self confident, happy. He no longer dreads to be seen in public. People no longer gaze on him In pity, scarcely able to disguise their aver- ston. The transformation is complets —at & cost of $20 supplied by the American people and the devotion of an American woman. The accompanying plctures were taken especially for the American Red Cross that the people of the United States might know of her splendid work in saving human beings for soci- ety. Mrs. Ladd may be seen in one painting the mask worn by M. Cau- dron, who was mutilated early in the war. The man wearing the glasses was a fine, healthy man, whose lower face was completely shot away. With- out the mask he would have been an object of Intense horror despite his patriotic sacritice. The third picture shows an assistant fitting a mask on a mutile the left side of whose fuce was torn to shreds. The fourth picture shows the shape of various masks, S store only holds two sales every year and the goods you buy are from their regular stock of high-grade dependable clothing which includes Stein-Bloch and Shuman Suits and Overcoats, also Berkshire Trousers. The reason for holding this sale is to make room for our new spring stock. Look over the following prices: o) |-- el g | SECTIONAL BOOKCASES Arealasting value from be~ ginnirg toend. A constant source of pleasure and use- fulness, and the cost is so small that you'll wonder why you did not start their installation before. In our estimation the best on the market. 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