The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-06

never I0TgeL: one Is gdS-gdHgTeHej
the other is Germans. / don It hate
them; I loathe them
Sim going on with my work.
I'm going to help cripples. mean
to do all / can for anyone who
needs my care. I'm going to sacri-
fee everything for the cause, even
the things I love the most
These striking statements, made by
Miss Grace Gasette at the Pennoyer
Sanitarium on Tuesday evening reveal
| the spirit Of a heroine who is working
"with malice toward" one "but
charity for all, !" the spirit Of a miracle
woman who wears the Cross Of the
Legion, the spirit of her beloved
France as she "strafed'' the Hun to
save world.
Miss Gasette spoke with a sincerity
that converted many Kenoshans to the
cause of retaining broken bodies and
broken lives, to which she has conse-
Grated all of her energy and all of her
Splendld genius.
The heroine s speech was the feature
of a delightful gathering at the sani-
tarium for which DR.. and Mrs. PEN
mover and Miss Alice Pennoyer were
host and hosteeses. Allied flags and
symbols decorated the parlors and ere
ated an appropriate atmosphere for a
postwar function of this sort. DIR.
Pennoyer introduced Miss Gasette
with speech brimful of praise
and admiration.
Physician Pays Tribute to Nurse.
America is proud Of her women in
the war; he said, "and justly so.
They have done splendid things. Two
of them have distinguished themselves,
the one writer, the other an artist
from Chicago The latter turned her
genius for observation to the invention
Of life-saving splnts and appliances
that won for her the Gross of the Lee
gion of Honor. I am proud to present
her. to you this evening Miss Grace
Gasette of Paris. -
The sWhy and HOW Of Tt.
IT didn t do anything splendid, -
said Miss Gasette in acknowledging
the doctor s introduction; only did
what T could.''
Again and again people ask me how
happened 10 do it and how I knew
that [ could. Welt tried because
France was my friend and we always
want to help our friends in trouble. AS
for the other I didn It know could do
the things I have. just wanted to
help and God showed me the way.
! .'You have to do something when he
roes are suffering and dying for you.
| UWhen a wound has to be drained in
forty-eight hours to save mans life
you re going to find way and I did.
I just looked at wounds or fractures,
remembered all I'D ever studied about
anatomy and suggested the kind of
splint thought would make it right.
cit usually did. If it didn't
the doctors would complain and I
have yet to hear surgeon complain
about my work.
The Singing Soldiers.
"Most anyone could nave done won
derful things she went on, eff
they had seen the things I saw when
I got back to Paris.
"For years I had read on the box
cars in France 33S men or horses but
had never realized what it meant
Now I know All the box-ears I saw
were carrying s horses or 3S men and all
of them were going toward the front.
ssThe soldiers were very happy
then. They were all singing We're
going to Berlin.
They didn It know-then-how long
the road would be. They weren It so
tired either. They were just boys going
smilingly to battle. Later they came
back to Paris. They weren t singing
wounded men don't sing-but they
were stiH smiling.
ssThose were frightful wounds.
Old methods wouldn It heal them
They required new appliances and I
decided to make them.
Winning the Diamond Cross.
THAT was the beginning Of my work.
Whenever the surgeons had done all
they could for a cripple they turned
him over to me and I-someway
fixed him up. I shall never forget
one case J. had-the one that made
me famous
"The doctor had told him bluntly
that he was going west and that he d
better call his folks if he wanted to
see them again. / heard it all and felt