Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — BOYS TRY THIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOYS TRY THIS.

Just What to Bo With a Person Who Is Almost Browned. American Agriculturist. My friend of the many funerals and the queer plantation was greatly surprised upon receiving the same day, from a brother and sister in the country, an emphatic hint that their respective boys (two each) would enjoy a summer vacation with him. His response was favorable, and soon came the answer, followed in due time by the eruption of four stalwart, live, fun-seeking boys. Diver sought the depths of things everywhere. Bearer could only be content when lugging something by muscular strength, or by tugging at something that required expenditure of force. Springer was a compound of coiled and spiral springs, attached to a sort of perpetual motion motor. Steady had a level head, and held himself well in hand and well balanced.— Mr. Utility (my friend) looked over the assortment and decided that a good way to keep the boys out of mischief would be to teach them in their sports to do something valuable. “Boys, how would you like a sea bath inside the breakers every day?” “Just the thing, Uncle!” chorused ail but Steady, who wanted time for consideration. “But I have one condition to name —that is that one of you ahall get drowned every day, and the rest shall rescue him." “I could do the rescuing act up fine, but I am afraid I couldn’t drown gracefully,” said Springer. “I can do the under-toe trick.” said Diver. “I’ll do the dragging out,” said Bearer. v “All right.” said Steady, who now sees the utility of the thing, “we’re in for it.” Arrived at the beach the uncle sat down on the sand, while the boys sported in the sea for a while and were ready for a sun bath. Then said Mr. Utility: “Now, Steady,you sink just where you are, and all the rest obey orders. Steady’s under. Now, Diver, go for him! All right. Now, Bearer, carry hkn up on the

sand. Springer, quick! roll some of your clothes into a bundle. Bearer, give him a light, stinging blow on the stomach, turn him over on his face, and with your hands under his stomach lift him so that head' and heels will hang down, and let the water run out of his throat. “Now lay him with the lower part of the shoulder blades across the bundle of clothes. Diver, seize his tongue with a bit of cloth, pull it out and hold it. Now, Bearer, loosen the clothing and rub his legs vigorously toward the head. And you, Springer, get on your knees behind his head, grasp his arms just above the elbows and draw them gently up, over, and back, at full length, and hold them there two seconds; then carry them down and press the elbows two seconds more. Keep up these;movements sixteen times a minute for a full hour if necessary. Bearer, leave a minute now and run to the wagon for some smelling salts or ammonia, and hold for a second to his nostrils, or if there are none heat an iron quickly and touch it, not quite blistering hot, to the pit of his stomach. “Ah, I see he is breathing now. Stop the arm movements. Springer, as soon as the breathing is regular, keep up the rubbing and get him into a warm bed, and as soon as he can swallow give him a teaspoonful of hot tea or coffee or weak brandy and water every few minutes for four or five times, then a teaspoonful every fifteen minutes, and rest will bring him around all right.” Just at this point Springer returned with some ammonia, which he clapped at once under Steady’s nose without regard to the stage of affairs, and was rewarded by a vig orous kick from the prostrate but

thoroughly revived lad that sent him sprawling backward upon the sand, whereupon Diver and Bearer piled themselves in a heap upon him while the ammonia slowly emptied itself upon the beach. “I say, uncle," said Steady, now sitting at ease, “that’s all well enough with a lot of fellows, but suppose there are only two; one is gone in and the other is sick or used up a little. What’s he to do all alone and with none of the fixings?” “Boys! boys!” shouted the uncle at the trio, scurrying down the beach. “Come back now for lesson No. 2. “Now, Diver, it is your turn to get stretched out. You just get cast up into shallow water by that next wave, and you, Steady, be a feeble lad of twelve or fourteen, and drag him cut and follow directions, while Bearer and Springer look on and learn the lesson by heart. All right. “Now; Steady, put his feet up hill and roll him on hisfaoe, with a stone

or stick or rolled jacket or hat filled! with sand under his stomach. Nowstand astride of his legs and press hard against his back and sides five or six seconds. Ease up and press again, and so on as long as water runs out of his mouth. Now, with a bit of cloth, draw out the tongue and tie a string rather tightly about it and fasten it to the center of a stick three or four inches long, lying against the face to prevent the tongue from falling back and stopping up the breathing pipe. Now roll him over with his back upon the bundle. Draw his hands above his head and tie them there with a handkerchief. Then kneel astride his limbs again, grasp the lower part of the chest in both your hands and throw your weight upon your hands for two seconds. Then with a push spring upright and allow his chest to expand. , < Now press again, arid so on, ten or twelve times a minute, for an hour, if necessary. If you get tired, roll him a little more than half way over every four seconds, and suddenly throw him back again, face downward, with a rest of tvo seconds between the rolls and occasionally change the side! As soon as breathing is established loosen the tongue, cover with dry clothing and let hand friction take the place of lacking stimulants. v Long before the directions were endfed Diver was flattening hfe new sand-filled dicer, his tongue and hands tied and Steady hard at work testing the flexibility of his ribs. Directly, when the pressure btcame too hard, up came his knees against Steady’s back with a resounding thud that reminded him that h* was tired and needed to change the programme to the side rolling, rhich broke the stick and loosenel the tongue of the boy. “Hold on there 1 I’m alive entugh for dinner right now!” This was too much for the sitting rolliaersj and in an-instant Diver was oiled along the beach, propelled by tiree pairs of stalwart hands, and ;hus the second boy was rescued. S. H. Platt, M. ).