The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
HEROINE OF WAR
LAUDS ITS HERO
Miss Grace Gasette Praises
"The Common Soldier
in Speech Before Keno
sha Teachers
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"DID WHAT She COULD
Winner Of the Gross Of the Legion
Tells Story of Her Service
Among Sammies and Poilus
at the front

"France needed hands and / had two
to offer. They say | did something
splendid. I don It know how I did it.
I wanted to help and God showed me
the way
With these modest words Miss Grace
Gasette described the heroic service
which won for her the Cross of the
Legion of Honor and the gratitude of
a world in brief address before the
teachers Of the Kenosha Schools ga
thered in the High School Assembly
Room on Tuesday afternoon.
With war around you, she went
on, "you just have to do something
big. When you see them suffering and
realize that someone loves them and
that they We done what they could for
love Of country, you just have to help
them and someway you find way.
elf you do the best you can you we
done your bit. IF you don t you're a
Stacker and that Is about all there is to
it,
Miss Gasette talked for forty min
utes and held her hearers spell-bound
for every moment of it. There was
about her the aura Of one who has suf-
fered for someone else. There was in
her eyes the haunting seriousness of
folks from over there. It caught her
audience and held it captivated.
An Introduction.
The speaker was introduced by Mrs.
Mary D. Bradford in little talk brim-
full of admiration. It told briefly the
story of Miss Gasette Is service in
France how she left her studio in
Paris for hospital at the front, how
she watched men suffer and die because
of clumsy equipment and improper
treatment, and how, in moments of in
spiration she poured her love of coun-
try, art, and ingenuity into the in
vention Of live-saving appliances for
wounded men that brought her the dia-
mond cross of the legion.
s'Seeing it Through
ct IN woman with two countries, -
said Miss Gasette in introducing her
helf, ssthe United States and France.
I love both of them but I pitied
France when I saw her young men
dying dying gloriously for her.
CT could not stand it. I went to
Neuilly and took the only task I could
find, job that nobody else wanted.
Of course it was hard but had to
serve my apprenticeship for France.
Anyway it gave me a chance to
see and to learn. I didn It complain.
When saw tired men day after
day enduring unspeakable filth and
fatigue to hold a wavering line and
never once yelling ] felt myself for
tunate and said nothing.
Then my chance came. They need
ed strange shaped splints and T could
make them.
'sThey tell me now that they will
make happy children out of little Grip
pies. 7 hope SO. But I didn't think
of that when I made them. I was
thinking only Of the cause and of the
men who were dying for its principles.
When the Boys Come Home.
ssThey were wonderful men - all of
them French, American and Eng
lish. Unlike the Huns they never
hollered.' They just carried on !
smilingly.
You re going to have a hard time
living up to them when they come back
home. They've learned what it means
to share and play fair and it's made
bigger men Of them. Once at the front
they learned what France had done to
hold the line for so many years and
they were childishly, manfully grateful
! to her.
ssThey tried to pay the debt. They
made partial payment, at least, but it s
up to us to make full settlement. We
must think no peace and accept no
peace that will not restore France and
compensate her for her sacrifce.''
g. ct Cetera.''
More comment from Miss Gasette s
address win be found in this issue of
the Evening News under the appro-
pirate caption "Graee-Notes. - It
brings something of the same story and
all of the same spirit that made the
speaker the idol of France and the