Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Realistic Practice. [ARTICLE]

Realistic Practice.

The girls had seen a picture of a li(e-saving fire corps organized by the young ladies of an English town, and (says the bazar) decided to form a similiar brigade. The drill consisted in getting around a large blanket and holding it to catch unfortunates who should jump from the second or third stories of burning dwelling. But the fair members of the corps wanted some real practice. After much persuasion a young man, deeply enamored of one the members, was prevailed upon to fall into the blanket from the top of the barn. The lifesavers gathered one afternoon, attired in becoming uniform, and twelve gathered around the blanket and tiok a firm grip. Then the accommodating young man climbed up on the roof of the building, made ready, and jumped. Each girl was gazing upward, and at the terrible sight of a man falling through the air they were all .so shocked that, without thinking, twenty-four hands went up to as many eyes to shut out the view. The brave young man is still confined to his room.