boys by fire“I Held My Finger in It”
“I Held My Finger in It”
“At first I thought it had put my eye out,” said Tom, “but the fellows used ‘first aid’ immediately.”
“I never saw a ‘black eye’ look better,” praised the assistant nurse. “You must have had good treatment.”
“Next,” continued the leader, “I raised a blood blister on my finger, splitting kindling wood for a camp fire. The fellows made some water hot on the fire, and Iheld my finger in it—but if it hadn’t been that we were ‘first aiders,’ I wouldn’t have noticed a little thing like that.”
“And last of all,” said Ibee Brave, “I stepped into a hornets’ nest!”
“I can imagine the rest of the story,” smiled Miss Helpem. “And I can understand why you haven’t clean faces!”
“But you can’t imagine how grand it was to know ‘what to do,’” protested Ibee Brave through swollen lips.
“Well, boys,” said the assistant nurse, “after this day’s happenings, I think we will not need any practice games. I’m very glad nothing really serious occurred, and that your first-aid knowledge prevented suffering.”
“Say, Miss Helpem, you wouldn’t mind not saying anything to the other class about the things that happened, would you? We might just pass it off without much explanation, you know.”
“I promise secrecy!” laughed the assistant nurse.
FOOTNOTE:[F]May be bought at drug store, or large department store.
[F]May be bought at drug store, or large department store.
[F]May be bought at drug store, or large department store.
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THE boys, however, forgot that Mary Frances’ girl dolls were Camp Fire Girls, and “Blue Birds,” and that girls as well as boys go on hikes—and meet with mishaps.
The mother of Soami Brave’s chum was the Guardian of their Camp Fire. The very afternoon that the boys went hiking, she took the girls of the first-aid class for a boat ride on Looking Glass Lake. They didn’t happen to meet any of the boys, however.
The sun shone very brightly into the playroom window, a beam falling radiantly upon Looking Glass Lake and reflecting brightly upon the faces of the happy boating party.
“Isn’t this lovely!” sighed Soami, as they drifted under the shade of a Christmas cedar tree which Mary Frances had planted on the edge of the lake.
“Isn’t it, though!” said Angie, her little chum; “only isn’t the sun hot, Mother!”
“It certainly is, dear,” agreed her mother. “I didn’t realize, or I would have told you to powder your faces to prevent sunburn.”
“Why, Mother!” exclaimed Angie, “you have always disapproved of face powder, and here you are recommending powder!”
“I know,” laughed her mother, “but I refer to toilet or talcum powder, a coat of which might prevent sunburn. As it is now, you girls will probably have to ask Miss Helpem’s advice.”
picking flowersThe Little Party Soon Scattered to Pick Wild Flowers
The Little Party Soon Scattered to Pick Wild Flowers
“Our class meets to-morrow morning,” said Soami. “Isn’t that good!”
By this time the little party had beached the boat on the shore and soon scattered to pick wild flowers.
At the sound of “Wohelo,” the girls gathered for their homeward trip.
“My, how my hand and arm burn and itch,” exclaimed one of the girls, scratching her arm.
“Oh, perhaps that is plant poison!” cried Soami. “Do you know poison ivy when you see it?”
“No,” the girl replied. “What does it look like?”
“My big brother, Ima, explained it this way to me,” replied Soami:
This vine runs along the ground and climbs trees in just the same way as the beautiful Virginia Creeper. It is quite readily distinguished, however, for Poison Ivy has butthreeleaves in a cluster, while Virginia Creeper hasfiveleaves.The poison rash is caused by the irritating juices of the plant.
This vine runs along the ground and climbs trees in just the same way as the beautiful Virginia Creeper. It is quite readily distinguished, however, for Poison Ivy has butthreeleaves in a cluster, while Virginia Creeper hasfiveleaves.
The poison rash is caused by the irritating juices of the plant.
Girl showing other girsl her rash“My, How My Hand and Arm Burn and Itch”
“My, How My Hand and Arm Burn and Itch”
“My, I wish I’d known that when gathering my flowers,” said another girl. “I really believe I’ve gatheredsome poison ivy among them. Look, is this the ivy? It has three leaves.”
“It certainly is,” said Soami. “Please throw it overboard. You may have a case of ivy poison ‘for fair,’ though not everybody ‘takes’ poison. Maybe you’ll be lucky.”
“I sincerely hope so,” said the girl so fervently that everybody laughed.
“Well, anyhow, don’t scratch!” warned the Guardian of the Fire.
But the next morning’s class hour revealed the result of the day’s adventures. Two girls came with bad cases of plant poison, and nearly every girl had been sunburned.
poison ivy branch“It Has Three Leaves”
“It Has Three Leaves”
“Well, well,” said the assistant nurse, when the girls told of their experiences. “Although I’m sorry for you,this is really very interesting, for it will make you girls see the real helpfulness of our lessons. You can very soon relieve each other of your unpleasant skin irritations, for I shall give you notes on what to do for—
Sunburn is the result of exposure to the direct or reflected rays of the sun, sometimes causing the skin to blister and peel.To Prevent:Before exposure, spread over the face and arms, cold cream or any grease at hand—even cream off milk; or use toilet powder.Keep the head covered, but haveair spacebetween the top of the hat and top of head.Treatment:Never wash sunburn.Never open the blisters.Mix a lotion of one part limewater to three parts olive oil (sweet oil), and apply.You see, the treatment is very much the same as for burns.
Sunburn is the result of exposure to the direct or reflected rays of the sun, sometimes causing the skin to blister and peel.
To Prevent:
Before exposure, spread over the face and arms, cold cream or any grease at hand—even cream off milk; or use toilet powder.
Keep the head covered, but haveair spacebetween the top of the hat and top of head.
Treatment:
Never wash sunburn.
Never open the blisters.
Mix a lotion of one part limewater to three parts olive oil (sweet oil), and apply.
You see, the treatment is very much the same as for burns.
Poison Ivy and a few other plants cause a rash upon the skin after contact with their irritating juices. Everyone should learn to distinguish poison ivy, which hasthreeleaves, notfive, as has the Virginia Creeper (seepicturein this chapter). If this poisonous plant were recognized and avoided, there would be but few cases of plant poisoning.Treatment:Do not scratch.Mop on rash a saturated solution of Epsom salt, or boric acid,or baking soda,[G]with a small “sponge” of absorbent cotton, which is to be thrown away after using. Allow application to dry in the air.
Poison Ivy and a few other plants cause a rash upon the skin after contact with their irritating juices. Everyone should learn to distinguish poison ivy, which hasthreeleaves, notfive, as has the Virginia Creeper (seepicturein this chapter). If this poisonous plant were recognized and avoided, there would be but few cases of plant poisoning.
Treatment:
Do not scratch.
Mop on rash a saturated solution of Epsom salt, or boric acid,or baking soda,[G]with a small “sponge” of absorbent cotton, which is to be thrown away after using. Allow application to dry in the air.
Prickly Heat is an itching redness of the skin caused from overheating the body. It appears oftenest on babies; sometimes on older people whose skin is very sensitive.Treatment:Bathe with a pure soap, as Castile.Then bathe with a mixture of one part alcohol to three parts water.Dust, with talcum powder.
Prickly Heat is an itching redness of the skin caused from overheating the body. It appears oftenest on babies; sometimes on older people whose skin is very sensitive.
Treatment:
Bathe with a pure soap, as Castile.
Then bathe with a mixture of one part alcohol to three parts water.
Dust, with talcum powder.
These itching lumps, which resemble mosquito bites, usually indicate stomach or intestinal trouble. They seem to appear after exposure to first, extreme heat; then, to sudden chill. Sometimes they are caused by certain foods; as fish or berries.Treatment:For the itching, rub with table salt.Give a cathartic. Citrate of magnesia is excellent.Then give a half-teaspoon table salt twice a day for two or three days.An old-fashioned home remedy is one-quarter teaspoonful cream of tartar in one-quarter glass of water three times a day, at morning, noon and evening, for three days.If hives persist, see doctor.
These itching lumps, which resemble mosquito bites, usually indicate stomach or intestinal trouble. They seem to appear after exposure to first, extreme heat; then, to sudden chill. Sometimes they are caused by certain foods; as fish or berries.
Treatment:
For the itching, rub with table salt.
Give a cathartic. Citrate of magnesia is excellent.
Then give a half-teaspoon table salt twice a day for two or three days.
An old-fashioned home remedy is one-quarter teaspoonful cream of tartar in one-quarter glass of water three times a day, at morning, noon and evening, for three days.
If hives persist, see doctor.
“Did you have it all planned to give us this lesson. Miss Helpem?” asked Soami Brave, while the girls bathed their sunburned faces as directed, and treated the poison ivy rash with the Epsom salt solution.
“Do you really want to know?” asked the assistant nurse.
“Please tell us,” they begged.
“Well, to tell the truth,” replied Miss Helpem, “your needs seemed to require this lesson so much—that I didn’t have to invent a game at all—I just put you into practical practice.”
“By the way, Miss Helpem,” suggested Angie, “would you mind not telling the boys’ class about what happened?”
“I promise secrecy,” said Miss Helpem. The girls wondered why she and Shesa Brave laughed so heartily—they didn’t know that the boys had been given the same promise.
FOOTNOTES:[G]To Make a Saturated SolutionStir into a small amount of boiled water, all that can be dissolved.
[G]To Make a Saturated SolutionStir into a small amount of boiled water, all that can be dissolved.
[G]To Make a Saturated SolutionStir into a small amount of boiled water, all that can be dissolved.
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TWO boys were absent when the class met for the next lesson.
“How disappointed I am,” said Miss Helpem. “This is the first time anyone has missed a lesson.”
“Perhaps Tom and Jim will come late,” suggested Ibee Brave, and just as he spoke steps were heard.
Ibee opened the door and in came the two boys. Jim was holding a handkerchief to his nose, which was bleeding profusely.
“He didn’t want to come in,” explained Tom to the nurse, “but I told him you could make it stop. He said he didn’t believe so, for he’d tried everything. He kept saying he ought to lie down, and I kept saying he ought to sit up to keep the blood from flowing so easily.”
Tom stopped to take a breath. You see he had great confidence in Miss Helpem’s first-aid help ever since his experience with his “black eye.”
“You were right, Tom,” said Miss Helpem, showing Jim to a seat before the class. “If you do not mind, Jim, I will give the boys their lesson now on what to do for—
1. Sit patient upright.2. Raise arm on bleeding side.two boys and nurseJim Was Holding a Handkerchief to His Nose3. Wrap neck and forehead with towels dipped incoldwater.4. Sniff ice water and salt up nostrils. One-half teaspoon salt to a glass of water.5. Place a piece of ice under the upper lip. Hold ice, wrapped in cloth, on the bridge of the nose.6. If bleeding still continues, use a small piece of absorbent cotton as a wedge or plug or cork. Fasten a thread to the cotton—to be used to remove it. Dip it into peroxide of hydrogen, and push gently into bleeding nostril with a pencil.
1. Sit patient upright.
2. Raise arm on bleeding side.
two boys and nurseJim Was Holding a Handkerchief to His Nose
Jim Was Holding a Handkerchief to His Nose
3. Wrap neck and forehead with towels dipped incoldwater.
4. Sniff ice water and salt up nostrils. One-half teaspoon salt to a glass of water.
5. Place a piece of ice under the upper lip. Hold ice, wrapped in cloth, on the bridge of the nose.
6. If bleeding still continues, use a small piece of absorbent cotton as a wedge or plug or cork. Fasten a thread to the cotton—to be used to remove it. Dip it into peroxide of hydrogen, and push gently into bleeding nostril with a pencil.
Shesa Brave brought the articles needed as Miss Helpem worked, and in a very few seconds after the nurse had used the cotton wedge, Jim’s nose stopped bleeding.
It was an excellent lesson for the boys, who didn’t realize that the next day they would only be dolls, whose noses may break, but not bleed. Still, if you can remember what to do, those dolls will never mind.
After Jim took his usual place Miss Helpem continued the lesson.
“Let me see,” she said, “I think, after nosebleed, perhaps the next most common complaints are earache and toothache and a few other little aches.
“Now, as to—
This dreadful pain is generally caused by hardening of the wax in the ear from cold.To preventwax from hardening, use a little commonred(unbleached) vaseline in the ear.Treatment:Hold ear over a cloth wrung out of hot water on which is sprinkled some pure alcohol.With a medicine dropper, drop into ear some warm olive oil; or saturate a small piece of absorbent cotton with the warm olive oil, and place in ear—cover with dry cotton.(Mothers often use one drop of laudanum in the olive oil, but laudanum is too dreadful a poison for children to handle.)For watery discharge after earache, it is best to see a doctor, but a sprinkling of boric acid in the ear will usually relieve the trouble.If earache recurs often, see the doctor.
This dreadful pain is generally caused by hardening of the wax in the ear from cold.To preventwax from hardening, use a little commonred(unbleached) vaseline in the ear.
Treatment:
Hold ear over a cloth wrung out of hot water on which is sprinkled some pure alcohol.
With a medicine dropper, drop into ear some warm olive oil; or saturate a small piece of absorbent cotton with the warm olive oil, and place in ear—cover with dry cotton.
(Mothers often use one drop of laudanum in the olive oil, but laudanum is too dreadful a poison for children to handle.)
For watery discharge after earache, it is best to see a doctor, but a sprinkling of boric acid in the ear will usually relieve the trouble.
If earache recurs often, see the doctor.
Drown insect by filling ear with warm olive oil.(Mothers sometimes pour a little pure alcohol into the ear to drown and shrink insect.)
Drown insect by filling ear with warm olive oil.
(Mothers sometimes pour a little pure alcohol into the ear to drown and shrink insect.)
1. Wink—do not rub.2. Hold upper lid over under lid, and blow opposite nostril.
1. Wink—do not rub.
2. Hold upper lid over under lid, and blow opposite nostril.
eye-cupAn Eye-cup
An Eye-cup
Remember that almost always an object in the eye will work itself out if the eye is kept closed.Wash the eye with boric acid solution in an eye-cup.[H]
Remember that almost always an object in the eye will work itself out if the eye is kept closed.
Wash the eye with boric acid solution in an eye-cup.[H]
Boy sitting on stool with head wrappedToothache
Toothache
As soon as possible see a dentist. There would be but little toothache if children were takenin timeto a good dentist. This applies even tofirst teeth, for if first teeth are neglected, the second teeth are affected.Treatment:If the tooth feels long, with a throbbing pain, there is trouble with the nerve. Paint gum with iodine, being careful not to swallow any. For painting, use a small ball of cotton twisted or tied fast to the end of a toothpick. Never dip the used cotton back into the iodine.If the tooth aches, look for a cavity, clean out the cavity with a toothpick.Fill cavity with absorbent cotton wet with essence of peppermint or red pepper water or oil of cloves, and cover with dry cotton.
As soon as possible see a dentist. There would be but little toothache if children were takenin timeto a good dentist. This applies even tofirst teeth, for if first teeth are neglected, the second teeth are affected.
Treatment:
If the tooth feels long, with a throbbing pain, there is trouble with the nerve. Paint gum with iodine, being careful not to swallow any. For painting, use a small ball of cotton twisted or tied fast to the end of a toothpick. Never dip the used cotton back into the iodine.
If the tooth aches, look for a cavity, clean out the cavity with a toothpick.
Fill cavity with absorbent cotton wet with essence of peppermint or red pepper water or oil of cloves, and cover with dry cotton.
Be careful not to break splinter; pull it out from direction in which it entered.If no end appears above the skin, open the skin with a needle,but dip the needle into alcohol first to kill germs.Every medicine closet should contain a splinter extractor or tweezers. They cost from five to ten cents.
Be careful not to break splinter; pull it out from direction in which it entered.
If no end appears above the skin, open the skin with a needle,but dip the needle into alcohol first to kill germs.
Every medicine closet should contain a splinter extractor or tweezers. They cost from five to ten cents.
Hiccough is usually caused by indigestion.Treatment:A few soda-mint tablets are generally helpful.Nine or more swallows of water without breathing is a good old-fashioned remedy. So, also, is holding a deep breath.If hiccough continues, mothers usually give children a cup of warm water in which is dissolved a half teaspoon mustard powder—to cause the child to “throw up” whatever is causing trouble in the stomach.
Hiccough is usually caused by indigestion.
Treatment:
A few soda-mint tablets are generally helpful.
Nine or more swallows of water without breathing is a good old-fashioned remedy. So, also, is holding a deep breath.
If hiccough continues, mothers usually give children a cup of warm water in which is dissolved a half teaspoon mustard powder—to cause the child to “throw up” whatever is causing trouble in the stomach.
“Now, I see some of you shuddering,” laughed the nurse, “and no one can blame you, but sometimes hiccough becomes very serious, and it is better to take the nasty dose of mustard water than to endanger the heart’s action from hiccoughing. But just to console you, I will give some hints as to—
Cracked ice[I]held in the mouth, and allowed to melt slowly is excellent.Soda mint is good.
Cracked ice[I]held in the mouth, and allowed to melt slowly is excellent.
Soda mint is good.
Chills usually show that a person is going to be ill. See a doctor.Never cool off suddenly. Do not sit down in a cool, breezy place when in a perspiration. It is very dangerous and has caused many a person to “catch his death of cold.”If a person becomes chilled from exposure:1. Use hot-water bags (or stones or bricks, heated in the oven) or hot stove lids or flatirons, covered with paper or cloth to prevent burning the patient. Place them under the arms and at the feet.2. Rub the patient’s limbs toward the body.3. Give hot coffee or tea or hot lemonade.4. Keep well wrapped.5. Give a hot foot bath in which is a teaspoonful powdered mustard.6. Wrap in blanket and put to bed.
Chills usually show that a person is going to be ill. See a doctor.
Never cool off suddenly. Do not sit down in a cool, breezy place when in a perspiration. It is very dangerous and has caused many a person to “catch his death of cold.”
If a person becomes chilled from exposure:
1. Use hot-water bags (or stones or bricks, heated in the oven) or hot stove lids or flatirons, covered with paper or cloth to prevent burning the patient. Place them under the arms and at the feet.
2. Rub the patient’s limbs toward the body.
3. Give hot coffee or tea or hot lemonade.
4. Keep well wrapped.
5. Give a hot foot bath in which is a teaspoonful powdered mustard.
6. Wrap in blanket and put to bed.
Fainting is caused when too small an amount of blood flows to the head.To Prevent:Oftentimes, bending the head forward until between the knees, spreading knees apart, prevents a person from fainting, for the blood then flows to the head.To restore a person who has fainted:Keep people away. Patient needs air.Lay patient flat on floor with no pillow, having fresh air in room. Fan patient.Loosen clothing about neck.Hold household ammonia or smelling salts to nose.Dash a little cold water in face.Coffee may be given after patient recovers consciousness.
Fainting is caused when too small an amount of blood flows to the head.
To Prevent:
Oftentimes, bending the head forward until between the knees, spreading knees apart, prevents a person from fainting, for the blood then flows to the head.
To restore a person who has fainted:
Keep people away. Patient needs air.
Lay patient flat on floor with no pillow, having fresh air in room. Fan patient.
Loosen clothing about neck.
Hold household ammonia or smelling salts to nose.
Dash a little cold water in face.
Coffee may be given after patient recovers consciousness.
“That is all the lesson for to-day,” said the assistant nurse, “and you’ve all been so attentive that I would like to give you a reward.”
“I don’t think that we need any reward, Miss Helpem,” said Tom Holden, “when you’ve done so much for us all, already. Gee, you make me feel like being a doctor when I grow up!”
“I hope not all of you feel that way,” laughed Miss Helpem. “A doctor in a town full of doctors would have a difficult time making a living.”
“That’s not true of first-aiders though,” said Tom.
FOOTNOTES:[H]To use an eye-cup, fill it about three-quarters full; hold it over the eye while bending the head forward. Throw head back, holding cup over eye, and open and shut eye several times.[I]An easy way to crack ice is to place a piece about the size of your fist in a strong piece of cloth, and hammer it into bits.To keep ice chips, lay a piece of wool flannel over a small sieve, and place the chipped ice on this, allowing it to drain into a bowl. Wrap the flannel over the ice. This keeps the warm air out from the ice and the cold air in.
[H]To use an eye-cup, fill it about three-quarters full; hold it over the eye while bending the head forward. Throw head back, holding cup over eye, and open and shut eye several times.
[H]To use an eye-cup, fill it about three-quarters full; hold it over the eye while bending the head forward. Throw head back, holding cup over eye, and open and shut eye several times.
[I]An easy way to crack ice is to place a piece about the size of your fist in a strong piece of cloth, and hammer it into bits.To keep ice chips, lay a piece of wool flannel over a small sieve, and place the chipped ice on this, allowing it to drain into a bowl. Wrap the flannel over the ice. This keeps the warm air out from the ice and the cold air in.
[I]An easy way to crack ice is to place a piece about the size of your fist in a strong piece of cloth, and hammer it into bits.
To keep ice chips, lay a piece of wool flannel over a small sieve, and place the chipped ice on this, allowing it to drain into a bowl. Wrap the flannel over the ice. This keeps the warm air out from the ice and the cold air in.
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“NO firecrackers, and no toy pistols!” exclaimed Ibee Brave to his Sister Soami, when she told him about the lesson given the girls’ class the day before. “That’s all right for girls, but I can’t imagine boys on the glorious Fourth without firecrackers and pistols!”
boy and girl“No Fire Crackers and no Toy Pistols!”
“No Fire Crackers and no Toy Pistols!”
“You wait until you hear what Miss Helpem told us. Your lesson comes this afternoon, doesn’t it? You may change your mind,” prophesied Soami.
“Pooh!” exclaimed Ibee. “I bet I don’t! What kind of a fellow would I be, with a brother off with the troops in Mexico, if I were afraid of a toy pistol!”
“Oh, dear me,” laughed Soami, “you don’t understand. It’s not the pistol you ought to be afraid of; it’s——”
“Oh, say, talk sense, can’t you?” exclaimed Ibee. “What are you driving at, anyhow?”
“That’s all for the present, class,” replied Soami, tantalizingly, as she ran off with Angie, who had just appeared.
Ibee decided to hunt up Tom Holden before going to class, to find out what he knew. But Tom hadn’t heard anything about the question.
“I don’t see any harm in a few proper celebrations,” said Tom. “What’s Miss Helpem’s idea, I wonder?”
By the time the class assembled all the boys had heard something about “Miss Helpem’s Fourth of July idea,” and there was an unusual air of expectancy as the assistant nurse came into the class room carrying—what do you think?—a toy pistol, a bunch of tiny firecrackers, a bunch of medium-sized firecrackers, and some “giant cannon” crackers. Of course, they were very tiny, just the right size for Mary Frances’ dolls. The “cannon” crackers were like the tiniest real ones you ever saw.
Miss Helpem had just laid them all on the little glass table near the little glass medicine closet, when Shesa Brave came in carrying a little cannon—which would really “go off, if loaded.”
The boys certainly were surprised, for they thought they were to hear these very toys condemned.
“Good afternoon, boys,” smiled Miss Helpem, straightening her cap. “This is to be a very interesting lesson. It’s our Fourth of July lesson, even though the Fourth doesn’t come until next Tuesday. I hope we are all going to have a grand time on the Fourth. The girls’ class have planned their part in the town event. Doctor Surecure is in charge, you know. He is planning a civic and patriotic celebration. I shall ask Miss Shesa to read you the program. You will notice that your space is left blank. That is, left open so that we may fill it in to-day. Now, Shesa, read if you please.”
Shesa read the—
10.00A. M.Bugle Call to Village Green.10.05A. M.Music by Town Band.10.10A. M.Reading of Declaration of Independence.By the Mayor.10.20A. M.Flag Raising. Singing: “Star Spangled Banner.”10.30A. M.Parade Assembles.11.00A. M.Parade Moves:1. Up Main Street.2. Through River Avenue.3. Along Lake Drive.4. Down Main Street to Village Green.Order of Parade:1. Master of Ceremonies on Horseback.2. Town Council on Horseback.3. Hearus Band.4. The Red, White and Blue.Borne by Six Boy Scouts.5. The Boy Scouts.(Who will arrange their own program.)6. Float:Camp Fire Girls.7. The Spirit of ’76.8. Float:Our Veterans.9. Float:The Spirit of 1916.10. Floats:First Aiders:(a) Girls.(b) Boys.11. Future Citizens:Baby Parade.12. Float:Our Hope.School House, over which the Dove of Peace hovers with outstretched wings,just under the American Flag.Decorated Dollsmobiles.(Best to be awarded a silver cup.)Intermission.2.00P. M.Bugle Call to Village Green.2.05P. M.Music by Hearus Band.Reading of Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg.By the Mayor.2.15P. M.(a) Work Horse Parade.(b) Pony Parade.3.00P. M.Prizes Awarded.3.15P. M.Singing—“America.”3.30P. M.Races:1. Sack Race.2. Three-legged Race.(By girls and boys.)3. Hurdle Race.4. Fencing Contest.(Between two boys.)5. Flag Drill.By Boy ScoutsandBlue Birds.4.30 [P. M.] Music—Hearus Band.5.00P. M.Regatta on Looking Glass Lake.In the evening, fireworks will be set off on the Village Green in front of Town Hall.Music by Hearus Band.Notice to the Public.It will be unlawful to use firecrackers and toy pistols or blank cartridges.By order of the Town Council.Signed byThe Mayor.
10.00A. M.Bugle Call to Village Green.10.05A. M.Music by Town Band.10.10A. M.Reading of Declaration of Independence.
By the Mayor.
10.20A. M.Flag Raising. Singing: “Star Spangled Banner.”10.30A. M.Parade Assembles.11.00A. M.Parade Moves:1. Up Main Street.2. Through River Avenue.3. Along Lake Drive.4. Down Main Street to Village Green.
Order of Parade:1. Master of Ceremonies on Horseback.2. Town Council on Horseback.3. Hearus Band.4. The Red, White and Blue.Borne by Six Boy Scouts.5. The Boy Scouts.(Who will arrange their own program.)6. Float:Camp Fire Girls.7. The Spirit of ’76.8. Float:Our Veterans.9. Float:The Spirit of 1916.10. Floats:First Aiders:(a) Girls.(b) Boys.11. Future Citizens:Baby Parade.12. Float:Our Hope.School House, over which the Dove of Peace hovers with outstretched wings,just under the American Flag.
Decorated Dollsmobiles.(Best to be awarded a silver cup.)Intermission.
2.00P. M.Bugle Call to Village Green.2.05P. M.Music by Hearus Band.Reading of Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg.By the Mayor.2.15P. M.(a) Work Horse Parade.(b) Pony Parade.3.00P. M.Prizes Awarded.3.15P. M.Singing—“America.”3.30P. M.Races:1. Sack Race.2. Three-legged Race.(By girls and boys.)3. Hurdle Race.4. Fencing Contest.(Between two boys.)5. Flag Drill.By Boy ScoutsandBlue Birds.4.30 [P. M.] Music—Hearus Band.5.00P. M.Regatta on Looking Glass Lake.
In the evening, fireworks will be set off on the Village Green in front of Town Hall.
Music by Hearus Band.
Notice to the Public.It will be unlawful to use firecrackers and toy pistols or blank cartridges.By order of the Town Council.Signed byThe Mayor.
Notice to the Public.
It will be unlawful to use firecrackers and toy pistols or blank cartridges.
By order of the Town Council.Signed byThe Mayor.
“Some program!” commented Tom Holden.
“But why not let us have firecrackers and toy pistols?” asked Ibee Brave.
“Yes, Miss Helpem, why not?” asked half a dozen voices.
“I am prepared for that question,” smiled the assistant nurse. “If you will kindly open your note-books, I think by the end of this lesson you will understand that it is not because anyone wishes to deny you fun that you are asked not to use these little toys,” pointing to the table, “but because—well, after you have heard the lesson, I think you will know something about the danger from—
Gunpowder is not antiseptically clean. It is very dirty because it contains so many of the deadly germs of lockjaw.This germ has such a terrible effect upon the body that if not destroyed in time, it causes the jaws to lock so tightly together that they cannot be forced open. Gradually the patient starves to death and finally dies in terrible convulsions of pain.Toy pistols, firecrackers, blank cartridges, being loaded with gunpowder are very dangerous playthings, and their use should be discouraged. Any physician or nurse will tell you that the hospitals have many deaths from tetanus (lockjaw) after the Fourth of July.
Gunpowder is not antiseptically clean. It is very dirty because it contains so many of the deadly germs of lockjaw.
This germ has such a terrible effect upon the body that if not destroyed in time, it causes the jaws to lock so tightly together that they cannot be forced open. Gradually the patient starves to death and finally dies in terrible convulsions of pain.
Toy pistols, firecrackers, blank cartridges, being loaded with gunpowder are very dangerous playthings, and their use should be discouraged. Any physician or nurse will tell you that the hospitals have many deaths from tetanus (lockjaw) after the Fourth of July.
See a doctor.Absolutely every wound of this charactermustbe treated with anti-tetanic serum.If doctor is not seen immediately, paint with iodine and anoint with vaseline; but the doctormustbe seen.
See a doctor.
Absolutely every wound of this charactermustbe treated with anti-tetanic serum.
If doctor is not seen immediately, paint with iodine and anoint with vaseline; but the doctormustbe seen.
“We never understood the dangers before, Miss Helpem. Now, what will we have in that parade?” spoke up the scout patrol leader.
“We need decide only about the float of the first-aiders,” said Miss Helpem. “Your scout-master will confer with you scouts as to the other part of the program.”
“Oh, yes,” rejoined the patrol leader; “but, Miss Helpem and Miss Shesa, have you thought out anything for our first-aiders’ float?”
“To confess the truth,” laughed the nurse, “I think Miss Shesa has no less than twenty ideas. Will you make a few suggestions to the boys?” turning to her.
“Miss Helpem has more ideas in a minute than I have in an hour,” began Shesa, “but she thought one of my ideas good. It seemed to me that you boys might fix up an improvised first-aid tent on your float, leaving it on the Village Green after the parade. In case any real accident occurred, Miss Helpem could have at hand everything she needed—for somebody might be foolish enough to get hurt. Then you could really do a little actual service by being at her call.”
“It sounds wonderfully important,” said the patrol leader.
“Only I do wish you boys had had some lessons in bandaging,” commented Miss Helpem. “But we’ll all do our best, anyway, and look forward with pleasure to those lessons.”
“Why couldn’t we have a little chap all bandaged up, with that toy cannon at his feet and a string of firecrackers and a toy pistol in his hands, with a printed card on himsaying, ‘I used these toys on the Fourth,’ and another little perfectly well chap all dressed in bunting, carrying a flag and holding a horn, bearing a sign, ‘I didn’t’?” asked the patrol leader.
one wounded boy and one not on float“That’s a Fine Idea”
“That’s a Fine Idea”
“That’s a fine idea,” said Ibee Brave, “but where dowecome in?”
“We? Oh, we—” the patrol leader answered so lamely that everybody laughed.
“I can tell you, boys, a good way to be better prepared for important work,” said Miss Helpem. “If you are willing to take two more lessons before the Fourth, I feel quite certain Miss Shesa will show you the simplest first-aid bandages. She has been taking a full course in first-aid at the hospital, you know. Then, on the float, you may adjust bandages to each other.”
“That’s awfully kind of Miss Shesa,” said the leader. “Will all you fellows come?”
Everybody said yes, and the class was dismissed.
“Say, I wonder what the girls are going to do,” exclaimed Tom Holden suddenly on the way home.
“That’s so! I wonder why we didn’t ask?” said another boy.
“I’ll try to find out,” said Ibee Brave.
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“SOAMI, what are the girls going to do in the parade—on your float, I mean?” asked Ibee, yawning sleepily, as he stretched out in a steamer chair near the hammock in which Soami rocked on the porch of the Brave family’s cottage.
“Just—as—though—I’d—tell—you,” yawned Soami in imitation of Ibee’s manner.
“Say, go on, tell me, won’t you?” said Ibee. “I’ll tell you a little about ours if you do.”
“Yum, yum,” sang Soami. “I might possibly tell you a little—you tell first.”
“Has Shesa anything to do with your plans?” asked Ibee.
“Oh, so she’s going to give you lessons in bandaging, too!” exclaimed Soami, realizing the next instant that she had given a secret away, but the “cat was out of the bag.”
Then Ibee began to laugh. “Caught you this time, Sister,” he teased. “Shesa wouldn’t give me a hint.”
“Anyhow, I think you were awful!” said Soami. “I’ll watch out for you after this.”
“Tell me more? Please do,” begged Ibee, but Soami had gone indoors where she felt safer.
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Shesa Brave taught the boys and girls so well that within the week they were quite familiar with the use of—
Bandages cut in the form of triangles are the most useful first-aid bandages, for they are very readily adjusted, and may be applied to so many different uses; for instance:To hold dressings (compresses) in place.To support broken or fractured parts of the body (sling).We will have on hand for our uses:One large triangular bandage, made from a piece of unbleached muslin one yard square.Cut the muslin across diagonally, as shown in “A.”Two smaller triangular bandages, made by cutting a large triangular bandage across as in “B.”Of course any piece of goods may be used for a bandage, even handkerchiefs or torn clothing; but we are speaking about the best kind of bandages to have ready for use.Note.—For triangular bandage for doll twenty-one inches high, cut a piece of soft muslin or lawn sixteen inches square. Cut across diagonally for one large triangular bandage. To make the small triangular bandage, cut across the remaining triangular piece.Triangular bandages are used—1. Unfolded.2. Folded.When the triangular bandage is repeatedly folded on itself it becomes the “cravat” bandage.The triangular bandage, either unfolded or folded, may be used on any part of the body. The smaller triangles are used for the hands and feet and the jaw.Note.—In the ready-made first-aid packets will be found a triangular bandage, on which are printed sketches of the manner in which the bandage is applied.
Bandages cut in the form of triangles are the most useful first-aid bandages, for they are very readily adjusted, and may be applied to so many different uses; for instance:
To hold dressings (compresses) in place.To support broken or fractured parts of the body (sling).
To hold dressings (compresses) in place.
To support broken or fractured parts of the body (sling).
We will have on hand for our uses:
One large triangular bandage, made from a piece of unbleached muslin one yard square.
Cut the muslin across diagonally, as shown in “A.”
Two smaller triangular bandages, made by cutting a large triangular bandage across as in “B.”
Of course any piece of goods may be used for a bandage, even handkerchiefs or torn clothing; but we are speaking about the best kind of bandages to have ready for use.
Note.—For triangular bandage for doll twenty-one inches high, cut a piece of soft muslin or lawn sixteen inches square. Cut across diagonally for one large triangular bandage. To make the small triangular bandage, cut across the remaining triangular piece.
Note.—For triangular bandage for doll twenty-one inches high, cut a piece of soft muslin or lawn sixteen inches square. Cut across diagonally for one large triangular bandage. To make the small triangular bandage, cut across the remaining triangular piece.
Triangular bandages are used—
When the triangular bandage is repeatedly folded on itself it becomes the “cravat” bandage.
The triangular bandage, either unfolded or folded, may be used on any part of the body. The smaller triangles are used for the hands and feet and the jaw.
Note.—In the ready-made first-aid packets will be found a triangular bandage, on which are printed sketches of the manner in which the bandage is applied.
TRIANGULAR BANDAGES (first)
TRIANGULAR BANDAGES (second)
You may see how these bandages are used by looking at the picture (page 83) of Rose Mary, Mary Frances’ big dolly, which she bandaged so skilfully that all herfriends felt certain that she had been taught by fairy teachers.
Girls on floatThe Girls Appeared Ready for the Parade
The Girls Appeared Ready for the Parade
If you practice putting these kinds of bandages on your dolls perhaps you will be able some day to help somebody who gets hurt, and seem yourself like a fairy to the person whose pain you helped.
The children became so enthusiastic in practising the various methods of bandaging that it grew to be quite a joke in their homes. Many times they waylaid the various members of their families, whom they wouldn’t let go until they were bandaged to look like heroes from the battlefield.
The boys tried in vain to find out what the girls’ classhad planned for their Fourth of July “float.” They taxed their brains guessing, but no one was more surprised than they when the girls appeared ready for the parade, all dressed in nurses’ outfits, decorated with a red cross, each carrying a big doll, bandaged, head, hand, arm, foot, in first-aid triangular bandages. In the center of the group, Mike, the Brave family’s pet bulldog, was comfortably perched, swathed in bandages. Mike wore a large placard which read:
“See what fire crackers and toy pistols may do to you!”
He seemed to enjoy this particular Fourth, however, more than any other the Brave family could remember.
The boys did have three “real cases” for their first-aid hospital tent.
A very foolish youth, notwithstanding the Mayor’s warning, shot off blank cartridges from a revolver, frightening a horse nearby, which broke its halter and ran away, throwing the young man down so hard that he had to be taken to the first-aid tent with a broken arm.
Ibee Brave and Tom Holden happened to be near, and were very proud as they bore the sufferer to the improvised hospital.
They hadn’t noticed in their excitement that a little boy had been wounded with the powder from the shot, and felt mortified when two members of the girls’ class followed them into the tent with the little patient.
Miss Helpem sent for Doctor Quickenquack, who set the big boy’s broken arm and treated the little fellow’s powder wounds.
“The worst of it is, young man,” said the doctor to thebig boy, as he set the arm, “that not all the punishment came to yourself. If these powder wounds become serious for that youngster, you will be blamed.”
“I didn’t realize, Doctor,” replied the young man. “I’ll never need any further lesson—after all this, and after I pay my fine.”
The other “case” was a lady who fainted when she saw the accident, and was quickly revived in the tent.
“I really believe that this is the best Fourth of July celebration our town has ever known, Doctor,” said the Mayor, complimenting Doctor Surecure upon the success of the day. “‘A sane Fourth’ as you said, will give more pleasure, if people will co-operate, than all the din of firecrackers and thunder of powder. I’m sure we owe you and your able first-aid classes our vote of thanks.”
“Miss Helpem deserves all the credit for the first-aid help,” replied the doctor.
“Indeed no, thank you, Doctor,” laughed Mary Frances Helpem, coming up at that moment. “To the boys and girls of the classes belongs that praise.”