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Show SOCIETY OF MEN WITH ; COPPER MASKS FORMS I i I PARIS, Feb. 2 The "Society of the Men with the Copper Masks" has jus. held its first annual convention at the iVal de Grace Military hospital, Paris. The society consists of French soldiers, sol-diers, suffering from facial wounds, who have been provided with a set of new features by the American Red Cross. The most successful address was mado by a woman's hairdresser, who lost his nose through a shell explosion. As ho told his comrades in a speech: "Without my nose my job was gone, for how could a noseless coiffeur hope to please women customers Already melancholy had marked me v for its own, when the mask expert took my case in hand, and so successfully, that I am now doing a rushing business in my old trade." These American "portrait masks," which are tho only ones in France, nre made of light weight copper plate, enamelled in flesh tints. They conceal con-ceal facial scars and hide the absence of missing features. They are an adoption of the mask invented by Captain Cap-tain Derwent Wood of the British army. The work owes its origin to Mrs. Maynard Ladd, of Boston, who devised the American mask, and to H Miss Mario Brent, of Columbus, O , who took charge of the "portrait mask studio." Miss Brent recently married M Despreaux, director of one of the most J important libraries In Paris. 4 |