Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — How to Help the Fallen. [ARTICLE]

How to Help the Fallen.

“Icy pavements are now with us,” said a Camden man, “and women are beginning to fall frequently. Do you know the right way to help them up? I ask you tnis because I see all about me in the winter time prostrate women and men making monkeys of them and of themselves by offering help that is not helpful. For instance, down goes a young woman. A young man rushes to her, and, standing before her, takes both her hands. Then he pulls, but since she has nothing to brace her feet

she slides along in an undignified way. Another woman falls and the man who runs to her gives her his hand. She takes it, so as not to hurt his feelings, but it is a hindrance to her Instead of a help, for, unless she is being actually lifted up, she needs both her hands in rising—one to arrange her skirts with, the other to press on the pavement as a kind of lever. The proper way to assist a woman to her feet,” said the Camden man, according to the Philadelphia Record, “is to stand before her, saying with a smile and a soothing gesture, ‘Remain perfectly still please,’ and then step gallantly to the rear, put your hands under her arrns and raise her with a firm grip.”