The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
Remarkable Work Being
Done by Miss Grace
Cassette. Portrait
Painter, in Hospital at
Neuilly

rIss GRACE CAUSE.-THE. the .
MI we'll known American por-
trait painter. II doing a re-
msrkable work in the bandass room
n ne American Hospital Of Neuilly-
psr1s.
Che 10 the daughter Of Norman T. |
osssette, who built the Masonic Tenn
p,s, one Of the FIRST high buildings OF
chicago. She has been a Latin Quar-
ter parsonage for sixteen years past.
keeping house with her widowed
mother. Strenuous art worker. enam-
ored Of the strong beauty Of effort. she
crosses the Atlantic almost yearly.
doing a special class Of portraits. like
John Burroughs. the naturalist; DIR.
Emile q. Hirsch. the rabbi; Agnes
Nestor, whom President Wilson ap-
pointed to the Vocational Schools Com
mission; Gertrude Stein. who launched
Ma,isse and the Cubists. and typical
Chicago worthless like Judge Lands
And DR.. l.. l.. Macarthur. II Is her IN
bi,ion to All up an American Gallery
Of Character.
She showed the writer around her
amou bandage room. which has won
q reputation with French surgeons.
II must turn out 1000 congresses,
make 1000 cotton balls. roll 400 band
ages and make 900 combines and 1000
nuns per day-not to mention what
II furnishes to poor French hospitals.
II is a real factory. Everything
10 made on the spot-even wood. iron
and leather work. Not a sipgle pat
ented or prepared device or dressing
has been bought; Yet IL sets the pace
in France for efficiency with cheap
ness and luxury with ingenuity.
There are American hospitals all
over France. To the natives. they all
have a zest Of imported ways in food,
furniture and fixings, Il sense Of lux
'ury due &c American thoroughness, our
cult for wtat is first class. and IL one
may say 1t habitual American smart
} ness. Twenty years hence American
tourists in Great France will meet
with touching kindnesses from peasant
villagers. town magnates. mountain
innkeepers and poor men and bankers
IN great cities. why this?" the trav-
eller will ask. astonished. oh"
they'll answer gayly. I'VE were in the
American Hospital at Pau-or-Juilly
or Dinard-as may be-in the great
war"
The reader already is familiar with
the American Hospital at Neuilly.
Neuilly is the richest commune in
France. Practically 1t is Western
Paris, suburb of shady
What does the richest commune do
With its money" the writer once
asked.
The Neuillois pointed to the new
Lycee Pasteur. or boarding high
school, veritable palace, opulent, gran
dose, embowered in sreenery.
Built for spot cash." he said, mot a
cont Of loan
This Palace Lycee IL the hospital.
II is brand new. Generous Americans
on both sides fitted 1t up for the
wounded The permanent American
Hospital OF Ncuilly-quite a different
undertaking. bijou oasis for sick
Americans-became responsible for
I Il 10 the French Government. The
\Nttle permanent hospital Is a candy
box, a bower. The big val hospital is
. hospital Of bad cases.
American physicians with field am
bulances-like DR.. Edmond Gros. for
merry Of San Francisco-take pride in
picking out delicate cases for their
brethren Of the university units.
THE university units come, stay
three months and rotate" says Grace
Gassette. al present we have the
Harvard unit. Or. Harvey c. Gushing,
the brain specialist Of Cleveland, now
with the Harvard Medical School,
headed them. He has gone back and
DR. Greenough Of Boston Is in charge"
I Previously, 1t was the Lakeside Uni