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 ehair 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.
Shesa Brave taught the boys and girls so well that within the week they were quite familiar with the use of triangular bandages.
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| Triangular Bandages. |
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| More ways to wrap triangular bandages. |
TRIANGULAR BANDAGES
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 -
- Unfolded.
- 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.
You may see how these bandages are used by looking at the picture, just below, of Rose Mary, Mary Frances' big dolly, which she bandaged so skillfully that all her friends felt certain that she had been taught by fairy teachers.
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| 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 person whose pain you helped.
The children became so enthusiastic in practicing 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 lot go until they were bandaged to look like heroes from the battlefield.
The boys tried in vain to find out what the girls' class had 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 largeplacard
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 the big 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 blame."
"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 fire- crackers 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.
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