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Show Miscellonv Metropolitan Museum and Modern Mod-ern Warfare. The war department announces that war armor for the American soldiers, helmeta, shields and breantplatcs, ia being be-ing modeled in the workshops of the MetropoM lan Museum of Art, New York City. The various pleeea comprise the best typos used centuries ago, and in some inaUuices the armor is beint? wrought into eha po on ancient anv I is and by hammers which were actually used hundreds, of years ago. Tills war In Ku-rope, Ku-rope, which has brought bank into use mauv discarded weapons and practices of medieval warfare, hap found use for armor aa well. This ia shown in the adoption of steel helmets by all the warring war-ring powers; in the use of heavy breastplates breast-plates by the Germans and lighter breastplates, breast-plates, for attack, by the Kngllsh; in the armored waistcoats used by the Italians, and in trench shields which all the armiea are using. The ordnance department was fortunato in having available at the museum mu-seum one of the greatest collections of ancient armor that exists In the world today. to-day. The collection, which ranks about seventh in the world, now includes the famous Riggs collect ion, which contains some of the rarest and richest pieces that have been in the market since 18io. In connection with this collection a workshop work-shop was established at the museum .for t he purpose of cleaning, repairing and, In rare cases, restoring pieces that wp;e defective. Thus tlie museum has studied tiip processes of making armor and has collected the necessary tools from various vari-ous parts of the world. The armor department de-partment of the museum was placed at the disposal of t he v.ar department by I tree tor Robinson, with the tunc lion of the trustees, when he learned that the government was in ne.jd of hkilled makers of models for the preparation of armor. About twenty-five different types of armor defenses have b-en made at various vari-ous factories, including arm and L'-g guards. The use of these was suggested hv a studv or the hospital statistics of France and Kngland, which showed that more than 41 per rrni of tho.-o; in me hospitals suffered from leg wound.-., and no less than 3i per cent from arm wounds. Wall Street Journal. |