Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1901 — Case of Emergency. [ARTICLE]

Case of Emergency.

The ..doctor i* charge of the school hail always laughed nt the Idea of our ever making practical use of our “First Aid to the Injured” lessons. He laid niuttered something nbont “shoetnaker* sticking fo'fhWr lasts,” and then had shM: "Yon tench the children - tlijit’rf your Hue—and wait for me to come if anything happens.” ;Therefore, when ow delicate little -Nannie fell dowr. stairs, we had not merely tin? desire to give her immediate relief, hut also a deep-*voted hut unspoken wish to show the man that we could do something. Nunttic lmd murmured, "My ankle— I twisted my before she fainted. To bind it then might help, and certainly could not harm iter. The emergency bandages were produced, and, delighted to see that there was as .vet no appreciable swelling, we IriHtnd tin* leg In most approved style from toes to knee. We bad just finished when the doctor came. Hts snorted at sight of the materials around, then, after an examination of a few minutes, he said: "Very good very good, indeed! But you’ve bandaged the wrong loot.’’New York Times.