Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 6, 1919, Page 6

NORWICH BULLETIN, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1919 WESTERLY A newspaper reporter, writing of the rescye work of the transport Northern Pacific, stranded off Fire Islahd, makes the reference of special local interee fn regard to Lieutenant H. Russe Burdick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Purdick, of Westerly, who enlic in the FIfth Company, Westerly, C Artillery Corps, Rhode Tsland Nati Gupard and svbsequentlv commissio lieutenant after successful examina- tion in officers’ training camp: “Two New FEnglandors, however, were in the srpotlight when a destroy- er sped up New York lharbor with vescued soldiers. The destroyer was the Ringgoll, one of the fastest in the navy, and she cam: ‘ooking for Pier 3 at the great Hobcken docks. “The rays of the seavchlight from e pier cut over the tip end of the bow of the Ringgold and there in its path stocd a shouting Yark wearing a German helmet jammed down on his overseas cap. Beside liim, in the searchlizht, 5*0od an officer, his whole figlire silhonetted “He was waving one cruich; a large handage swaihing his right foot show- ed up snow-white. Tha' was Lieut. H. Russel Rurdick. of Weserly, R. I, of, € Companv, 102nd Macnine Gun Battalion. He was clipped by a Ger- MAKES NEW FACES FOR MU =an mrbine gun bullet cignals “Blinker flashed back nad tyrth from Lridze of the destroyer W playing Our Dircetor.” Five flashes caume from ‘He's saying 11 right, ervisi on the pier late~ the hundreds were telephored t Mar o hosp e was t n Hoboken 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—iwhen it hides honorable disfigurations gained in the defense of liberty—then there is a TYPES OF MASKS = thy was needed—something which | would hide their awful scars 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 | 'MRS. ANNA COLMAN LADD WORKING ON PORTRAIT MASK he will he auaran < ¢ | ed for about a week, and will later mgry worth while the telling. . | Derwent Wood, an English sculptor. given lea com 3m s, befrre This, then, is the story of “Old| ., cived the idea of making masks nefe thee hospital. He| Faces For New.” It is a recital pa-| . the mutiles, but it remained for A orve, of Westerly.| thetic and pitiable; it is a tale of yrc Aaynard Ladd, an American oepital | fnent i an| men's glory and woman's devotion; it | euiptor, living In Paris, to perfect the over ¥ 1s & song of sympathy and humanity- work and to materialize masks which would replace torn and missing tissue so naturally that the wearer would be of practlcal Christianity—of material- | Philip H. Opie, 76 1 ized altruism. « . Since time began wounds recelved In | gpja (o live out his life in comparative a m | battle were considered badges of hon- | pappiness, the largest s | or. Men gloried in them; women ad-| \fre Ladd Is an artist of Internation- fate, now *ie | mired. But that was before the com-| g1 repute. Born in Philadelphia, she . | ing of modern armament—of shell and was educated in private schools, going o \ i shrapnel—of mines and poison gas. In | ¢, paris and Rome, where for more - g o those other, more 1ane days, SCars | thap twenty years she worked with ] € of battle wounds were considered sa-| professors ari and llori. She cred. As the late William Shakespeare exhibited in the Paris salon, in this rs. n",l.nl s OWe] o cmaR L DA gid: “He laughs | country and in London. In 1913 she A both bad. the at scars who never felt a wound. exhibited forty bronzes at Gorham's ng its great| But things have changed since then. | in New York and at the Corcoran Art | Not that scars are not marks of re-|Gallery In Washington. She received idow leaves spect, but some mutilations are so re- | an honorable mention for her work at wio es. Cash | pulsive as to evoke horrer mixed with | the Panama Exposition. Incidentally a0 Frea & pity. Wounds in the face and head |she is an author, baving published sev- | leave the ugliest ma ent war hundreds In the pres- | eral novels. d thousands of | |M \ . After considerable experimentation|torn face. If possibie she obtalns ajare missing altogether then artificfal| | B Ladd hit upon thin copper as hav-{ phot of the mutile taken before|eyes are placed In for Ing sufficient strength. Then she de-| he reccived the wounds. When the 1 cided to have the base pls ver to give it a be ! | Ladd’ longer a mutile—an zled with pity. no longer dreads to ght know \wing h ed with sil-| From the photograph and the plaster| tile goes . Next| j ter fi . Ladd, guided by her sculp-|a | | Captain Wood's original conception | came the method to be employed in fit- sconstructs another plaster| pert nion | fine men have been torn and mutilated | was to make a mask to fit those por-|ting the mask Consultations with s which are mu-| mask fake” e) the ma Cliflord W. Davis, %8, son of Mr_; until they scarce resemble hu nan be- | tions of the face missing. If the chin|surgeons brought to light the fac er mask Is a wig, the 0, “,1:0 was mu nd Mrs. George Davison, died of| 1Dgs. Photographs received in this|was m g then the mask would ex-|nothing could be done with mutil Then g so camou- war. The eumor ftor 3t 3 t his| cour show men with their lower | tend v over the chin. if the cheek |until sev: ths after their wounds visible. lay after-| Jaws shot away, with their lips torn sing then the scarred poviion had he pletely er the \ off, with half their face gone. ! covered. The question tc contractec m‘fff "_‘;’! It is these men who were a problem | solved by Mrs. Ladd was in the maiu- | zation b s Westerly| ~ for thelr fellow men. They—ihe mu- |facture of the masks. They had fo ief Event crl ing busi-| tiles, as the French call them most |lizht, yet strong, of some composition | evolved | aptiy—had the patliy of their | which would rot tarnish and would re-| nursed | friends—of the grateful public, But | tain the color placed upon Its exterior! and lant A something more tangible than syripa- | ce, l.\m husiness ived by elyn Da- The prese no loss. | cl " 0o i 1 Company, Clarence E sz.l?r. 45, con of Mr. S State Guard, will attend 1 Mrs. Edwin W. Tavier, died on of L. Harwood L:l.—nhhem“" He grad- m ot Grammar T emer h o ne th his | schoots e br re to ¥ he at-,tuck ha n closed fo ! € nd the t 3 th business I q as has been | 1 esierly Textile company. He s sur- 1 quaranting STONINCTO h ife, who wos Miss S\‘.T Tt et = SRON S U and '} crdered th ) of t Vesterly day a the _school | member lic Librar , subject to change, was that San corps the building was 1 own would resume | When t ’ | Frank B. Cahoone, 24. died of influ- execept the West | twin ‘umwm Fred, is serlously | ment was ‘in s 5 e - heoitar e areive | Howard L. Lanphear, 26, con o many . T war ¢ " and Mrs. G H. I . from that v attend the him. He and Mrs. | 27C) Soh hool is the “rank B. Cahoone ks ;n ay morr ool is the ca nonta, Mr. and Mrs. James aker, of Vin- | nome 15 e on street, P ¥ nnounce the | jjiness ¢ Liz- | After lea he entc The :g;rlw\ S aare Somram ulists Deep Sleepers. med Thursday | machinist L p walking only occurs in deep ; h of w])w piph- | and up to t Mr, | Sleep. That is the reason somnambu- the | Lanphe: They | £ S r wa s Kathlcen Crock: | vived by hi Wiitiam Crockett | hrother, He naware of their meander- Here is the proof. A col- lcge student formed the habit of get- ings about. recently returnes r ing up in his sleep, dressing, walking Mrs. Abram O'mstead, after four|ard Lanphe s , 2 = 2 5 8 .anphea d te e o e 3 days’ sickness with influenza, died on | Fourth comr R Telar > iojtietpeean, uncoy Shie e ik Saturday at her home in Highland av- | Guard iberate and enjoyable swin, Resides he usbard, she Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Spriaos. 1z, walking back to his room, un- a son, Georgs, a seamas wife of W and etationed at Newport. | e dressin, home in Main s ! s, died at morn- and retiring agein, only to up in the morning without the wake Fire destroved the bara an % from pneumon e | P ; el Bl e | siightest inkling of remembrance from | suse is not | Mrs. George Hull the escapade of the night. attle and | dren, three o e _ ! ocated and about fif- |and it and numorous farming |/ ease while caring for tk ed. The ioss is exti- 11y, Jipat Aboit twenty-nine Lacal Laconi Banana Cultivation. not geperally known that the banana is an annual. The fruit comes heoh € el : 'f,‘-ifl 1');: I “wl”"‘em ‘!“r’ ’\r ‘v to maturity about vear after the tally destroyel by fire 5 iRE fo i iiae Mhvlor, shoot is planted, the trunk of the tree after childbirth. She subsequently attaining .a height of e fnstors it andn from 8 to 10 feet aud a girth of 36 | rnrn : v-:‘,r . il l‘ i s. From the root of the tree sev- spread ¢ p 3 1oots or suckers sprout, ench of the serv v ich in turn becomes a fresh tree. otherwise. Provided sar churches, The life of the banana tree, however, P A P is not unusually long, for it is felled everal months ago during after > fruit is gathered and scue- hut then even sanitary times indeed during the. operation. were barred The saloons were = dered closed then but now there are |dam long since | | Question for Nature Lovers. | Why does the oak, sturdiest of trees, | | bear but a small acorn, while the tea- der pumpkin vine bears such a | weighty fruit? That the latter runs glong the ground and the frult is | thereby assured of suppert is not true, | for the vine will cliab whenever zod | wherever opportunity is given and wiil | retain its hanging fruits to maturity ev though the latter weigh 0 pounds each. SHOP SHUT Down . \ ‘Nb[FiN’:{’y \ | ~ OFF Georgrd fl ‘W | Figuratively Speaking. 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