davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15
MRS. ANNA COLMAN
lAOO WORKING ON
PORTRAIT MASK

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 G face or the part OK
one-that was a real problem.
And a woman solved that problem
II 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
Mrs Maynard Ladd an American
sculptor, living in Paris, to perfect the
work and 10 materialize masks which
would replace torn and missing tissue
so naturally that the wearer would be
able to live out his life in comparative
happiness.
Mrs. Ladd is an artist Of information
al repute. 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 Gallorl. She
exhibited In the Paris salon. In this
country and In London. In 1918 she
tAuluAlCu 4Ollg ulOuAtS d GOTUulu
in New York and at the Corcorsn Art
Gallery in Washington. She received
an honorable mention for her work at
the Panama Exposition. Incidentally
she is an author, having published sew
eral novels.
Captain Woods original conception
was TO make a mask 60 tit those pOr-
tons OF the face missing. If the chin
was missing then the mask would ex-
tend only over the chin. If the cheek
was missing then the SCARED portion
would be covered. The question TO be
solved by NJ add was In the manu-
facture OF tn 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.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15

torn face. II possible she obtains q
photograph OF the mutile taken before
he received the wounds.
From the photograph and the plaster
cast Mrs. Ladd, guided by her sculp-
tors art, reconstructs another plaster
cast Of only those parts which are mu-
tilated. Then a copper mask is made
One-sixteenth of an inch thick. Then
comes the first fitting
II the mask so far as finished fits
properly then 1t is silver plated. Next
comes the question of making the mask
appear natural II eyebrows are need
ed they are inserted hair by hair; Il
eyelids are missing artificial eyeIids
adOrn the mask, with a hole through
them that the wearer may see; If eyes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15

are missing altogether then artificial
eyes are placed in the mask.
When the mask IS complete the mu-
tile goes for final fitting. Mrs. Ladd
adjusts the mask or has one Of her ex-
pert assistants attend TO the task. The
mask is held in place by fake" eye
glasses and strings or by a wig, the
attaching mechanism being so camOu-
tagged as to be practically Invisible.
But the work is not yet done. One
OF the most important operations in its
manufacture is in the coloring. Mrs
L8dd takes her palette and with spe-
Cially prepared pigments colors the
mask 10 match the complexion OF the
unmutilated part of the face. Then
the work and labor OF love is done
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15
TYPES OF Masks.

~ q HEN Aladdin gave new
WI lamps for old he did moth
Esg A ing very wonderful. But
~ when humanity, sympa-
thizing with the msfOr-
tunes OF others, replaces war-torn,
scared faces with new-when It hides
honorable designations 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" II is a recital pa
thetlc and pitiable; Il is a tale Of
mems glory and woman's devotion; It
is a song Of sympathy and humanity
Of practical Christianity-of material
iZed altrulsm.
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
ing OF modern armament-of shell and
shrapnel-Of mines and poison gas. In
those other, more humane days, scars
OF battle wounds were considered sa-
cred. AS the late William Shakespeare
or was II 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 mutll8 ted
until they scarce resemble human be
ings Photographs received I'm this
country show men with their lower
Jaws shot away, with their lips torn
of, with half their face gone.
1t Is these men who were a problem
for their fellow men. They-the mu-
tiles, as the French call them most
nptly-had the sympathy OF their
friends-Of the grateful public. But
something more tangible than sympa-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15
SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED.

CAMBRIDGE, O., Dec. IA. - The
board of education Of this city prob
ably set a precedent when it voted
vacation TO every teacher IN the
public schools covering the entire
month of December and closing the
public schools of the city for that
period. The action was the result Of
the influenza epidemic, the president
of the board making the remark that
the board was unwilling to take a
chance to sacrifice even one life. .
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15
HUNGARY ENDEAV0RS
TO MEET ALL DEBTS
international News Service:

BUDAPEST. Dec. IA CHavas)-
The minister of finance announced
today that Hungary would endeavor
TO meet all its financial engagements
10 its nationals as well as 20 for
eigners.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15
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Catholic story books by the latest
authors. at Schilling's.
Adv. 1O445-15
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15

Even the baby would say "Phila
Sweets II 1t were able to dictate its
wants.-Advt. 104O6-15
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15

Then the mutile walks out OF Mrs
Ladd's studio 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 breads to be seen in public,
People no longer gaze on him IN pity
scarcely able 10 disguise their aver.
sion. The transformation IS complete
at a cost OF $50 supplied by the
American people and the devotion OF
an American woman.
The accompanying pictures were
taken especially for the American Red
Cross that the people OF the United
States might knew Of her splendid
work In saving human beings for sOcl-
ETY.. Mrs. Lsdd may be seen IN one
painting the mask worn by NJ. eau
drOn, who was mutllated 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 sacrifice. The third picture
shows an assistant fitting a mask on
mutile the left side OF whose face was
torn 10 shreds The fourth picture
shows the shape OF various masks
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-15

Nothing adds TO a good dinner like
pure Phila ice creams.
Advt 10408-15
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Hearn and His Habits

RtsMiMiscENcIEs n, ms l: OF LAFCADIo .HEARN By
Setsuko koizumi (Mrs Hearn) l9mo DID, Ia
80. The Houghton Aliffin Company.
Almost anything concerning so rare
a genius as Hearn should be welcomed,
and volume of intimate personal
"reminiscences by his accomplished Jap
anese wife makes instant and potent
appeal to expectation. The range Of
the little volume is all the way from
Hearn's advent in Japan as d school
teacher to his death, and it comprises
almost every imaginable phase Of his
life and conduct; how he dressed and
ate and talked and went shopping, and
wrote and fell i'll and went on excur-
sions. and what not else. Much of it
may, seem trivial and superficial, though
to those who can enter into the heart
O. Japanese life and art it is not so.
The work. admirably translated from
the Japanese by Paul kiyoshi Hisada
and Frederick Johnson, is an invaluable
supplement to Hcarn's own works ard
20 his biography.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Mother Goose Again.

EVERY CHuD's MoTHER GOOSE 14troduction
Small 40, pp. 3os. The Macmillan Company.
We don't care the proverbial row Of
pins-we should say not, with pins at
war time prices! what was the origin
of Mother Goose's Melodies, and we
are glad that in her sprightly intro
duction to the present edition Miss
Wells sweeps both the veritable
Charles Perrault and the mythical
Elizabeth Goose, Vergoose, or Verti-
goose, into limbo and insists with the
voice of pure reason that these i'm
mortal productions never were written
at ali in the sense of methodical and
predetermined authorship, but like
Topsy, just "growed." And we agree
with Miss Wells. too, in thinking that
the secret, or one of the chief causes,
of their Immortality is their melodious-
ness. Our old friend O'Reilly once
remarked concerning his own name,
Did ye ever hear smoother name
than mine? John Boyle O'Reilly'--
just like stroking cat!" So these
rhymes and jingles are just pure YER
bal melody; SO smoothly flowing that
they sing themselves, and sing them
selves forever
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Boys Tales of Action
Strife in the Great Games Of
Peace and War

- William Hcyligcr, in "Fighting for
Fairview," tells a spirited story of
boys school life, in which baseball
forms the chief social and sporting
feature. While it does not "preach"
or obtrusively point moral" it does
most efficiently promote the propa-
ganda Of clean, honest, generous, manly
sport. The limo volume is we'll illus
trated in color, and is from the press
of D. Appleton & Co.
Louis Pendeton's Captain Ted" is a
story full of patriotic sentiment and
stirring action; of boy scout who
routs out camp of slackers in n
Georgia swamp, for the sake of helping
thus to win the war. This also is q
12mo, illustrated in color, from D. Ap-
pleton & Co.
Chelsea Curtis Fraser's "The Boy
Hkers," an illustrated 12mo from the
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, is live
ly story Of boys school life, in which
hiking, camping, boating and athletic
sports figure in an entertaining man.
ncr.
Adair Aldon. in "The Pirate of Jas.
per Peak" with frontispiece. 12mo, the
Macmillan Company), tells a gripping
tale OF boys adventures in the woods
and mountains, and among Indians ane
outlaws
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Good Books for Young Readers:
Fact and Fancy, Prose and Verse
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson
Some Classics
The Bible, Shakespeare, Fairies
and Giants

Whether as entertaining literature
instructive history, or source of
moral and spiritual inspiration. we
must give first place to the Bible;
among juvenile books as well as among
standard works for adult readers. But
while "all Scripture is profit
able it sometimes needs adaptation.
The text as it stands is largely unintel-
]igible 10 children. And seeing that
1t is not fetch. but something not
100 pure and good for human natures
daily food there is no reason why
it should not be rewritten in style
suited to the comprehension of very
young readers, provided always, of
course, that this be done reverently
and also with literary skill These
qualities are apparent in the sump-
tuous quarto of Az pages, with scores
of tine plates III color and in black
and white, put forward by the Fred
erick A. Stokes Company as "Stokes's
Wonder Book of the Bible" The text
is by Helen Ward Banks and the IL
Illustrations arc by Florence Choate
and Elizabeth Curtis, and all three
have done their work we'll.
Next to the Bible by common con
sent stands Shakespeare, and also by
common consent the "Talcs from
Shakespeare" of Charles and Mary
LalpD must rank as the greatest OF
all Juvenile paraphrascs Of his plays.
We must welcome, therefore, the ap-
pearance of q fine new edition of this
work, with the Rev Alfred Ainger's
introduction and many fine illustra-
tions in color. in an $40 of 376 pages,
from the press Of the Thomas Y.
Crowell Company. This same house
sends US also Dutch Fairy Tales" by
DR.. William Elliot Griffis with col
ored illustrations, ovo, PIP. 224),
most entertaining collection.
Another real classic, from the press
of Dodd. Mead & Co.. is Elsie Spicer
Eclls's "Tales OF Giants from Brazil"
(Svo, illustrated, PIP. 179). The tales
ere really of Portuguese origin. Old
World folk legends, translated to
New World soil and there transformed
to suit their new surroundings. 1t
will prove to be an entertaining vol
ume for children and interesting also
to adults who care for folk lore.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Juvenile Miscellany
Poetry, Prose and Pictures Of
Many Kinds

The Abingdon Press has published
volume for children in their teens in
Carolyn Sherwin Baley's "Stories for
Every Holiday" series of tales Of in
terest as such while each pertains to
and measurably explains one of the
principal holidays or memorial days of
the year.
The T. Y Crowell Company publishes
a delightful book of adventure for
little children in Little Miss Grass
hopper" by Johanna Spyri, translated
by Helen B. Dole and illustrated with
colored plates by Charles Copeland. 1t
is the story of little Swiss girl Of
six years who gets lost in the Alps.
Dodd, Mead G. Co. publish Jessie
Wilcox Smiths "The Little Mother
Goose" which is n compendious col
lection of childrens rhymes, by no
means confined to the Mother Goose
Melodies; well illustrated with colored
plates and in black and white.
The George H. Doran Company sends
us "The Wonderful Land Of Up" bv
Olive Roberts Barton, illustrated by
Neely Mccoy; whimsical tale of
children's adventures among the fairie
way up in in the sky, in the Soap
Bubble Country and the City OF
Baloonatick and other strange places.
Doubleday, Page 4 Co. have pro-
duced notably beautiful edition of
Dream Boats" q book of fairy tales
written and illustrated by Dugald
Stewart Walker; tales of mystic voy-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
ages into the wondrous land of Make

ages into the wondrous land of Make
Believe.
Duffield g. Co. issue "The Turquoise
Story Book" in which Ada and Eleanor
Skinner have compiled large number
of new fairy stories. nature sketches
and kindred compositions, from many
nent writer's. The volume has a col
ored frontispiece by Maxheld Parrish
Little, Brown e. Co. offer promise of
great delight to children not yet in
their teens with Happy Jack" by
Thornton W. Burgess, series of tales
-of the adventures of Happy Jack
geously illustrated in colors by Harri-
son Cady.
The Lothrop, Lee e. Shepard Com
pany issues q novelty in Ruth o. Dyer's
What Happened Then? Stories" with
colored illustrations by +. Riley Young.
The author has retold a number of the
familiar tales of childhood, such as
Little Red Riding Hood" and "The
Pied Piper of Hameln," and has added
to them sequels with happy endings
to answer the question which countless
children ask when the Old tales are
told, "And what happened then"
The Macmillan Company is to be
credited with noteworthy book of
Irish folklore, for children and also
for adults still in sympathy with child
hood, in "The Boy Who Knew What
the Birds Said" by Padraic Colum.
finely illustrated by Dugald Stuart
Walker.
G. =. Putnam's Sons publish L. Boyd
Smiths After They Came Out of the
Ark" folio completing the STORY Of
Noah's Ark The colored plates Of
which the volume chiefly consists are
very pleasing and some of them show
much humorous imagination.
Small. Maynard & Co. issue Gertrude
Smiths THE jolly Polly Stories," q
beautifully printed and illustrated
small ouarto about the adventures of a
very little girl; and Nina Sutherland
Purdy's -Four Clover" a similar
volume about the delightful expert
ences of a little boy and his pet ami
mails on big farm.
Sandman Twilight Stories," by
Abbie Phillips Walker, Harper &
Bros, is an illustrated story book
which will prove boon to those who
have to read little ones to sleep.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Child Culture

IHE az hiIlMGDoM ING. OF THE CHILD By Alice Mn
me Hers heniger. illustrated. illuo pp W
1i5. L. p Dutton Il Co.
The use Of the native dramatic in
stinct Of the child as a vehicle of men
tai tai and moral development is the
little treatise. Largely It consists Of
a relation Of the results of actual ex-
periments, but it adds thereto au-
thoritative and logical discussion OF
the why and therefore, with wealth
OF suggestion and information. 1t is,
OF course, not merely nor chiefly as a
medium OF entertainment that the
drama is to be used, though that is not
negligible value. It is to serve in
practical instruction in many direc-
tions and in that general Development
OF the mind and character which en-
braces all studies. II is a valuable ad-
dition to pedagogical literature, not
alone for the professional pedaggoue
but no less for parents and for all who
are concerned in the instruction and
care OF children.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
BOOks: Au t. h Ors: F

full to his or her own store of knoVl-
edge. In short chapters or episodes,
each complete in itself, but bearing
certain unity Of relation to the others,
the author has in delightfully."- epte:r-
tanning way answered many of the
thousands Of questions which children
love to propounds and which their el-
ders are too prone to dismiss with the
confession of ignorance: Run away,
now, am too busy to tell you!" Al
most does one learn from the book the
answer to the riddle propounded by one
small boy: Mother, where is the wind
when It isn't blowing" The chapters
on "a Spool of Silk" "rhe Story of
Cocoa" "Points About Needless and
Button, Button, Who Has the But
TOM" are particularly pleasing, and
even the old story, so familiar to every
child. of the caterpillar and the cocoon,
is given such new and interesting
dress--no pun intended that it makes
delightful reading. We know of no
book Which would give more pleasure as
a gif< book and which will more readily
satisfy the eager inquiries OF men
tally active child,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16

"For the Freedom Of the Seas" 1omo,
with unusually fine illustrations in
color; thrilling tale Of naval adven-
turc and achievement against the L.
boats in the great war
Edwin L. Sabin's Boys Book of Ind.
ian Warriors" is a big, handsome
12mo, illustrated from photographs
frem the Bureau of Ethnology of the
Smithsonian Institution, giving ent r.
tanning but Historically correct
sketches of more than twoscore Of
the most noted Indian chiefs and heroic
women in American annals. 1t is at
once book of thrilling Indian tales
and useful contribution to history.
1t is published by George ". Jacobs
s. Co.
Emile Benson Knipe and Alden Ar
thur knipe in their Girls of '64"
present a delightful juvenile or adde's
cent romance of Civil War days, with
wealth of local and correct historic
coloring and a fine vein of sentiment.
1t is illustrated by one of the authors
and is published in an attractive 12mo
by the Macmillan Company.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Junior Rornances
Stories Of Friendship, Sentiment
and Adventure

A thoroughly entertaining romance
Of child life, racy of the soil is found
in "The Adventures of Chicken Little
Jane" by Lily Munsell Ritchie an il
Illustrated 12mo from the Britton Pub
fishing Company. 1t is written with
simplicity and naturalness, and the
narrative is plausible and coherent
IN "Keineth," by Jane Abbott, an IL
lustrated 12mo from the j. B. Lippin-
colt Company, we have the fascinating
story of . little girl just entering her
teens, who was fond of fairy music"
and who accidentally got mixed up in
war secrets and great public affairs.
1t ls thoroughly interesting book.
Another Of Margaret Ashmuns
Isabel Carleton" books comes from the
Macmillan Company as a handsomely
illustrated 12mo. Isabel Carleton s
ment just on the border line between
youth and maturity, and will interest
readers in the later teens and beyond.
a somewhat distinctively boys book,
which will therefore be Of interest to
girls, comes from the same house in
Joseph Gollomb's THAT Year at Lin
coin High" a finely illustrated 12mo. 1t
is full of the irrepressible spirit of boy.
hood in school life, particularly in
fraternities and in athletics, and will
be JOY to every redblooded boy-and
pink-cheeked girl-who reads it.
Two romances of the very young. not
yet in their teens, arc "Clematis" and
"Arlo," both by Bertha B. Cobb and
Ernest Cobb, and published in loIno,
illustrated, by G.. p. Putnam's Sons.
The former is the story of a little
girl who was lost in the great city and
ultimately found home in the coun-
try; the latter is the tale of the lit
tie son of a nobleman who was driven
from, home and became wandering
musician, and finally came to his own
again.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16

output in these
Il ty, o Development
Being of the thirte claim great remones5
oyhood reading anything back of 1914
behind those small boys reading
They behind they ahead o,
my fathers boy library.
My youth
Better Than Wealth. Pm and stor meant for dcaton
boys Optic
Agr and A. I1cnty 1t the preceding generation
but plenty of following
Where the the o had FIVE books written
for their deaon those Of the oo had hfeenand
the boys and girls of 1918 have fifty hundred and fifty.
And the of style and subject has broadened
diversified that Of their with much less Of
varieties folks cheerful
stimulating they fail
years books and
s 1no~A clearly an adan in q"ay Many wrrs 1n0 have never be-
apparently
may convincing of
Perhaps puc of strong
and long But they had better beware the competition dangerous
newly bazond the publishers procamans for Young both
may youthful
es working in the World of fresh days dawn that draws them
hther after deep debcraon and with conscious purpose However
be- much " be supposed that having ovsed this pleasant
in the thought of writing straight into the minds and honest
respect notabity early
0pmen in this seasons uena This is apparently the result of the
pan against Christmas giving which, the makers books
ned resulted compromise whereby the publishers undertook spread
a M % a IT. III 1 S g @ aa pa0 S pn eSen'ns congestion on the
that if November
be
freshly for
delightful of
adv
Tl(s of
hre)
young life o" land and and in the air. whole Libraries full the
o
their respective Departure
the of Girl
beautiful works Of close the lines their
for Freedom
believe the
bookst
reader
family middle
who think they
Having
1888 uvnia Of
America But there persisenty
the back OF the like
Is all
water Babiean Alice
New-York tribune., 1918-11-16
Aries Refaired
By Flora Annie Steel and Arthur
Rackham

st,el Ifustrated by Arthur Rackhan. 4.o. pD.
iX 353. The Macmillan Company.
There are doubtless other good and
sufficient reasons for the Thanksgiving
Dav which we are about to celebrate.
But if there were none we should dia-
Germ one, great and joyous, in the c%-
ouisite volume before US and in lts
significance. We should be thankful
that some inspired beuefactors Of. The
race in the long ago composed the tales
OF st. George and the Dragon, and
Jack the Giant Killer, and Goldilocks
and the Three Bears, and Jack and
the Beanstalk, and Tom Thumb, and
all the rest of the goodly company OF
The immortals. We should be thankful
that amid the rise and fall Of empires
and all the vicissitudes OF the ages
these classics hold their place, lmper-
ishable and unimpaired.
We should, moreover-and this,
dearly beloved, is the present applica-
tion Of our text-be ever and ever so
thankful that it was put by some good
fairy into the heart OF Nlora Annie
Steel to retell all these woudrous tales,
and into the heart of Arthur Rack
ham to make pictures for them, For
never since Childe Rowland to the
Dark Tower came, or the Three Sillies
wept while the cider wasted, were they
told with truer spirit than by tho
magic pen which n little while ago
was making the witcheries of Ind re.
live before our eyes; and never, until
tue Three Wise Men cease drowning
cells, shall we hope 10 see more perfect
pictures of scenes in childhood's his
tories than these OF Mr.. Rackhsm's.
1t is no light thing that such rare
task. Happy have all children been
for many generation, who have known
any version Of these tales, but thrice
happy they, ''in the foremost files Of
time" who have them in this form of
matchless opulence.