Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — Artist Excels in Making Splints. [ARTICLE]

Artist Excels in Making Splints.

Here’s an artist who attained fame by deserting her art. She is Miss Grace Gassette of Chicago, and General Joffre has just received her at his headquarters, the first and only American woman he has so distinguished. Miss Gassette is known as the painter of portraits fine enough to be hung in the Paris Solon, but it was not for that that General Joffre received her. It was because, leaving her art, she Tipvotftd—herseif~To inventing devices to make wounded soldiers more comfortable. So many ingenious splints did she contrive to make war victims easier that French surgeons asked her to write a textbook on the subject. _Ngt long ago she went to the front to introduce a new surgical bandage, and General Joffre, hearing of it, expressed a wish to see the clever young American woman.