Dolly Takes Tea

DOLLY TAKES TEA
by Albert Bigelow Paine 

When Dolly sits down to the table,
And ev'rything's ready for tea,
With cookies and water for Mabel,
And water and cookies for me.

We nibble and chatter with Dolly,
And offer her "tea" from a spoon.
And often our meal is so jolly
It lasts through the whole afternoon.

Till Mabel jumps up in a hurry
And says that she really must go.
And I say, "Oh, truly. I'm sorry,
And Dolly's enjoyed it, I know"

Then gaily we clear off the table,
When Dolly has finished her tea,
With cookies and water for Mabel,
And water and cookies for me.

Three little old dolls take tea together in the nursery.

Assemble and Color Sammy Sniffle

The original by Dan Rudolph,
 restored for coloring by Kathy Grimm.

Description of Coloring Page: text "Sammy Sniffle"feather, kerchief, cold, runny nose, large belt buckle . This is a mechanical paper doll and requires tiny brass fasteners, brads or paper fasteners for it's assembly.

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Assemble and Color Polly the Pet Parrot

The original by Dan Rudolph,
 restored for coloring by Kathy Grimm.

Description of Coloring Page: text "Polly the Pet Parrot" bird on a branch feathers, claws, beak. This is a mechanical paper doll and requires tiny brass fasteners, brads or paper fasteners for it's assembly.

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Christmas Time by Mercedes Godoy

CHRISTMAS TIME

by Mercedes Godoy

published in 1919

       The Christmas tree, the children's delight in the United States, is sometimes used in Mexico, but the " nacimiento," or birth of Christ, is the typical Christmas amusement for the Mexican children.

       The figures of the child Jesus, the three Kings, St. Joseph, the Virgin, shepherds, and animals are made by the Indians in clay or wax, painted in brilliant colors. These are placed on a table or platform where a representation of the stable at Bethlehem is arranged, with moss and green to simulate hills, trees, and roads, while by using mirrors, lakes or ponds are shown. Scattered here and there are tiny houses, huts, and the shepherds and animals, the whole being illuminated with candles or electric lights.

       Some of these " nacimientos " are very artistic and elaborate, and are really worth seeing.

       The " posadas " are evening parties given for a period of nine days at different friends' houses, the last being on Christmas day. When the invited guests meet at the house where the "posada" is held, they go in a procession accompanied with music, singing and carrying the child Jesus, as if they were asking for posada or lodging for it. Another group is stationed at one of the parlors and behind closed doors. They also sing some hymns and after a time the door is opened, and those seeking the posada are admitted. After this there is dancing and supper is served. A tray is also passed around with pretty souvenirs filled with candies for each guest, this being a feature of the " posada." Sometimes a "pinata" is broken. This is an earthen jar decorated with tissue-paper in all colors and shapes and filled with candies, nuts, and all kinds of sweet- meats. Each person or child in turn is blindfolded and with a stick tries to break this pinata," but many times they miss it, or lose their way and go in another direction, so the rest have to run and get out of their way, or surely they would get a good hit on their head or body. When finally some one breaks the pinata, all rush and shout and try to get most of the candies and other things, these being quickly picked up from the floor by all participants. This amusement is nearly always used in all children's parties and I remember that I enjoyed it very much for its good fun.

       Perhaps it is unnecessary for me to say that on Christmas eve the churches are crowded with people who go to the midnight mass, as is the case among the Catholics in the United States. In some instances there is a family gathering at the homes of those who have been present at the midnight mass, but of course  while a child I had to forego this on account of the lateness of the hour when it was given. Furthermore these reunions are usually only for older persons.

       Presents are given on New Year's Day to the grown-up persons and toys and other gifts to the children on Kings' Day, January sixth. The Kings are the Mexican Santa Claus and are supposed to bring toys to the little ones. On that day a party is given for children, a large cake being placed on the table, in the center of all the other sweetmeats. This special cake contains a bean, and if a girl gets it she is the queen and selects a king from among the boys present, while if, on the other hand, the bean falls to a boy, he chooses the queen, and I was that lucky person at one of these parties that I attended. The king is supposed to give a few days later a party or picnic to all those who had attended, so of course we children loved this party, as in reality it meant two parties.

       Whenever we were in the United States we had our Christmas tree and Santa Claus would always fill our stockings, so I know both Christmas celebrations, Mexican and American, and like them both immensely.

       "In the Mexican Christmas tradition known as Las Posadas, participants re-enact Mary and Joseph's search for shelter in Bethlehem on each of the nine nights leading up to Christmas (from December 16th until the 24th). The song known in Spanish as "Canto Para Pedir Posada" is a vital part of the tradition. The title means "song to ask for shelter." and it recreates an imagined conversation between Joseph and an innkeeper in which Joseph explains that he and his wife need a place to stay for the night and the innkeeper initially refuses." Once In Royal David's City poem

A Christmas Day in My Childhood

A CHRISTMAS DAY IN MY CHILDHOOD

By Charlotte M. Smith

       Ever since I had been a tiny tot, I had played school with every conceivable object. Even when I was sick in bed the figures on the wall-paper were my pupils. They interested me as much as real people.

       As I grew older my scholars were dolls, but it always seemed a great task to find enough desks and seats for them.

       One Christmas morning my brother and I ran joyfully into the living-room to see our tree and search its wondrous branches for the gifts Santa had left. We found them all, as I thought, and were happily amusing ourselves, when mother, who was watching all the fun, reminded me that the best of all was yet to be found.

       I hunted everywhere, and soon, in the corner of the room behind the door, I saw that for which I had longed and dreamed. Never as long as I live shall I forget the feeling of joy and happiness that went through me as I took my real little schoolroom.

       My uncle had made it for me out of cigar-boxes. There were chairs, desks, blackboard, and even window!

This Grandmother makes classroom furniture for her grandchildren.

Two Boys Are Late

       Two boys were absent when the class met for the next lesson.

       "How disappointed I am," said Miss Helpem. "This is the first time anyone has missed a lesson."

       "Perhaps Tom and Jim will come late," suggested Ibee Brave, and just as he spoke steps were heard.

       Ibee opened the door and in came the two boys. Jim was holding a handkerchief to his nose, which was bleeding profusely.

       "He didn't want to come in," explained Tom to the nurse, "but I told him you could make it stop. He said he didn't believe so, for he'd tried everything. He kept saying he ought to lie down, and I kept saying he ought to sit up to keep the blood from flowing so easily."

       Tom stopped to take a breath. You see he had great confidence in Miss Helpem's first-aid help ever since his experience with his "black eye."

       "You were right, Tom," said Miss Hclpcm, showing Jim to a scat before the class. "If you do not mind, Jim, I will give the boys their lesson now on what to do for nosebleed.

Jim was holding a handkerchief to his nose.

NOSEBLEED
(See Reference Lid)

1. Sit patient upright. 
2. Raise arm on bleeding side.
3. Wrap neck and forehead with towels dipped in cold water.
4. Sniff ice water and salt up nostrils. One-half teaspoon salt to a glass of water.
5. Place a piece of ice under the upper lip. Hold ice, wrapped in cloth, on the bridge of the nose.
6. If bleeding still continues, use a small piece of absorbent cotton as a wedge or plug or cork. Fasten a thread to the cotton to be used to remove it. Dip it into peroxide of hydrogen, and push gently into bleeding nostril with a pencil.

       Shesa Brave brought the articles needed as Miss Helpem worked, and in a very few seconds after the nurse had used the cotton wedge, Jim's nose stopped bleeding. It was an excellent lesson for the boys, who didn't realize that the next day they would only be dolls, whose noses may break, but not bleed. Still, if you can remember what to do, those dolls will never mind.

       After Jim took his usual place Miss Helpem continued the lesson.

       "Let me see," she said, "I think, after nosebleed, perhaps the next most common complaints are earache and toothache and a few other little aches.

       Now, as to the earache...

Earache.

EARACHE
(See Reference List)

       This dreadful pain is generally caused by hardening of the wax in the ear from cold. To prevent wax from hardening, use a little common red (unbleached) vaseline in the ear.

Treatment:

1. Hold ear over a cloth wrung out of hot water on which is sprinkled some pure alcohol.
2. With a medicine dropper, drop into ear some warm olive oil; or saturate a small piece of absorbent cotton with the warm olive oil, and place in ear cover with dry cotton.
3. (Mothers often use one drop of laudanum in the olive oil, but laudanum is too dreadful a poison for children to handle.)
4. For watery discharge after earache, it is best to see a doctor, but a sprinkling of boric acid in the ear will usually relieve the trouble.
5. If earache recurs often, see the doctor.

FOR INSECT IN THE EAR

       Drown insect by filling ear with warm olive oil. (Mothers sometimes pour a little, pure alcohol into the ear to drown and shrink insect.)

FOR "SOMETHING" IN THE EYE

1. Wink do not rub. Hold upper lid over under lid, and blow opposite nostril.
2. Remember that almost always an object in the eye will work itself out if the eye is kept closed.
3. Wash the eye with boric acid solution in an eye-cup.*

* To use an eye-cup, 611 it about three-quarters full; hold it over the eye while bending the head forward. Throw head back, holding cup over eve, and open and abut eve several times.

TOOTHACHE

       As soon as possible see a dentist. There would be but little toothache if children were taken in time to a good dentist. This applies even to first teeth, for if first teeth are neglected, the second teeth are affected.

Treatment:

       If the tooth feels long, with a throbbing pain, there is trouble with the nerve. Paint gum with iodine, being careful not to swallow any. For painting, use a small ball of cotton twisted or tied fast to the end of a toothpick. Never dip the used cotton back into the iodine.

       If the tooth aches, look for a cavity, clean out the cavity with a toothpick.

       Fill cavity with absorbent cotton wet with essence of peppermint or red pepper water or oil of cloves, and cover with dry cotton.

SPLINTERS

       Be careful not to break splinter; pull it out from TOOTHACHE direction in which it entered.

       If no end appears above the skin, open the skin with a needle, but dip the needle into alcohol first to kill germs.

HICCOUGH

1. Hiccough is usually caused by indigestion. Treatment:
2. A few soda-mint tablets are generally helpful.
3. Xino or more swallows of water without breathing is a good old-fashionod remedy. .So, also, is holding a deep breath. 
4. If hiccough continues, mothers usually give children a cup of warm water in which is dissolved a half teaspoon mustard powder to cause the child to "throw up" whatever is causing trouble in the stomach. 

"Now, I sec some of you shuddering," laughed the

nurse, "and no one can blame you, but sometimes hiccough

becomes very serious, and it is better to take the nasty dose

of mustard water than to endanger the heart's action from

hiccoughing. But just to console you, I will give some

hints as to

HOW TO STOP NAUSEA (SICK STOMACH)

       Cracked ice held in the mouth, and allowed to melt slowly is excellent. Soda mint is also good.

CHILLS

       Chills usually show that a person is going to be ill. See a doctor.

       Never cool off suddenly. Do not sit down in a cool, breezy place when in a perspiration. It is very dangerous and has caused many a person to "catch his death of cold."

If a person becomes chilled from exposure:

1. Use hot-water bags (or stones or bricks, heated in the oven) or hot stove lids or flatirons, covered with paper or cloth to prevent burning the patient. Place them under the arms and at the feet.
2. Rub the patient's limbs toward the body. Give hot coffee or tea or hot lemonade.
3. Keep well wrapped.
4. Give a hot foot bath in water and a teaspoonful powdered mustard. 
5. Wrap in blanket and put to bed.

   * An easy way to crack ice is to place a piece ahout the size of your fist in a strong piece of cloth, and hammer it into bits.

   To keep ice chips, lay a piece of wool flannel over a small sieve, and place the chipped ice on this, allowing it to drain info a bowl. Wrap the flannel over the ice. This keeps the warm air from the ice and cold air in.

FAINTING
(See Reference List)

       Fainting is caused when too small an amount of blood flows to the head.

To Prevent:

       Oftentimes, bending the head forward until between the knees, spreading knees apart, prevents a person from fainting, for the blood then flows to the head.

To restore a person who has fainted:

1. Keep people away. Patient needs air.
2. Lay patient flat on floor with no pillow, having fresh air in room.
3. Fan patient.
4. Loosen clothing about neck.
5. Hold household ammonia or smelling salts to nose.
6. Dash a little cold water in face.
7. Coffee may be given after patient recovers consciousness.

       "That is all the lesson for to-day," said the assistant nurse, "and you've all been so attentive that I would like to give you a reward."

       "I don't think that we need any reward, Miss Helpem," said Tom Holden, "when you've done so much for us all, already. Gee, you make me feel like being a doctor when I grow up!"

       "I hope not all of you feel that way," laughed Miss Helpem. "A doctor in a town full of doctors would have a difficult time making a living."

       "That's not true of first-aiders though," said Tom.

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Two Boys Are Late,  12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 

On Looking Glass Lake

The little party soon scattered to pick wild flowers.

      The boys, however, forgot that Mary Frances' girl dolls were Camp Fire Girls, and "Blue Birds," and that girls as well as boys go on hikes and meet with mishaps.

      The mother of Soami Brave's chum was the Guardian of their Camp Fire. The very afternoon that

the boys were hiking, she took the girls of the first-aid class for a boat ride on Looking Glass Lake. They didn't happen to meet any of the boys, however.

      The sun shone very brightly into the playroom window, a beam falling radiantly upon Looking Glass Lake and reflecting brightly upon the faces of the happy boating party.

      "Isn't this lovely!" sighed Soami, as they drifted under the shade of a Christmas cedar tree which Mary Frances had planted on the edge of the lake.

      "Isn't it, though!" said Angie, her little chum; "only isn't the sun hot, Mother!"

      "It certainly is, dear," agreed her mother. "I didn't realize, or I would have told you to powder your faces to prevent sunburn."

      "Why, Mother!" exclaimed Angie, "you have always disapproved of face powder, and here you are recommending powder!"

      "I know," laughed her mother, "but I refer to toilet or talcum powder, a coat of which might prevent sunburn.

      As it is now, you girls will probably have to ask Miss Helpem's advice."

      "Our class meets to-morrow morning," said Soami. "Isn't that good!"

      By this time the little party had beached the boat on the shore and soon scattered to pick wild flowers.

"My, how my hand and arm burn and itch."

        At the sound of "Wohelo," the girls gathered for their homeward trip.

      "My, how my hand and arm burn and itch," exclaimed one of the girls, scratching her arm.

      "Oh, perhaps that is plant poison!" cried Soami. "Do you know poison ivy when you see it?"

      "No," the girl replied. "What does it look like?"

      "My big brother, Ima, explained it this way to me," replied Soami:

POISON IVY

       This vine runs along the ground and climbs trees in just the same way as the beautiful Virginia Creeper, it is quite readily distinguished, however, for Poison Ivy has but three leaves in a cluster, while Virginia Creeper has five leaves.

       The poison rash is caused by the irritating juices of the plant.

       "My, I wish I'd known that when gathering my flowers," said another girl. "I really believe I've gathered some poisnon ivy among them. Look, is this the ivy? It has three leaves."

       "It certainly is," said Soami. "Please throw it over-board. You may have a case of ivy

poison 'for fair,' though not everybody 'takes' poison. May be you'll be lucky."

       "I sincerely hope so," said the girl so fervently that everybody laughed.

       "Well, anyhow, don't scratch!" warned the Guardian of the Fire.

       But the next morning's class hour revealed the result of the day's adventures. Two girls came with bad cases of plant poison, and nearly every girl had been sunburned.

       "Well, well," said the assistant nurse, when the girls told of their experiences. "Although I'm sorry for you, this is really very interesting, for it will make you girls see the real helpfulness of our lessons. You can very soon relieve each other of your unpleasant skin irritations, for I shall give you notes on what to do for sunburn.

Poison ivy has three leaves.

SUNBURN
(See Reference List)

        Sunburn is the result of exposure to the direct or reflected rays of the sun, sometimes causing the skin to blister and peel.

To Prevent:

       Before exposure, spread over the face and arms, cold cream or

any grease at hand even cream off milk; or use toilet powder.

       Keep the head covered, but have air space between the top of the hat and top of head.

Treatment:

1. Never wash sunburn.
2. Never open the blisters.
3. Mix a lotion of one part limewater to three parts olive oil (sweet oil), and apply.
4. You see, the treatment is very much the same as for burns.

PLANT POISONING
(See Reference List)

       Poison Ivy and a few other plants cause a rash upon the skin after contact with their irritating juices. Everyone should learn to distinguish poison ivy, which has three leaves, not five, as has the Virginia Creeper (see picture in this chapter). If this poisonous plant were recognized and avoided, there would be but few cases of plant poisoning.

Treatment:

1. Do not scratch.
2. Mop on rash a saturated solution of Epsom salt, or boric acid, or baking soda,* with a small "sponge" of absorbent cotton, which is to be thrown away after using.
3.  Allow application to dry in the air.

PRICKLY HEAT

       Prickly Heat is an itching redness of the skin caused from over-heating the body. It appears oftenest on babies; sometimes on older people whose skin is very sensitive.

Treatment:

1. Bathe with a pure soap, as Castile.
2. Then bathe with a mixture of one part alcohol to three parts water.
3. Dust with talcum powder.

HIVES (NETTLE RASH)

       These itching lumps, which resemble mosquito bites, usually indicate stomach or intestinal trouble. They seem to appear after exposure to first, extreme heat; then, to sudden chill. Sometimes they are caused by certain foods; as fish or berries.

Treatment:

1. For the itching, rub with table salt.
2. Give a cathartic. Citrate of magnesia is excellent.
3. Then give a half-teaspoon table salt twice a day for two or three days.
4. An old-fashioned home remedy is one-quarter teaspoonful cream of tartar in one-quarter glass of water three times a day, at morning, noon and evening, for three days.
5.  If hives persist, see doctor.

       "Did you have it all planned to give us this lesson, Miss Helpem?" asked Soami Brave, while the girls bathed their sunburned faces as directed, and treated the poison ivy rash with the Epsom salt solution. 

       "Do you really want to know?" asked the assistant nurse.

       "Please tell us," they begged.

       "Well, to tell the truth," replied Miss Helpem, "your needs seemed to require this lesson so much that I didn't have to invent a game at all I just put you into practical practice."

       "By the way, Miss Helpem," suggested Angie, "would you mind not telling the boys' class about what happened?"

       "I promise secrecy," said Miss Helpem. The girls wondered why she and Shesa Brave laughed so heartily they didn't know that the boys had been given the same promise.

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, On Looking Glass Lake,  11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19  

Body Diagrams and Atlas Charts for Doll Physicians

Left, We recommend, "The Body Atlas" for older children by Steve Parker. 
Full of anatomical illustrations for young students interested in learning about human 
anatomy. Right, we cut up the book jacket only, to paste it's clip art onto cardstock 
and to use these small posters in our doll's clinic.

       Print, cut and paste an anatomy chart  or medical illustration onto cardboard for a doll doctor's office using the free clip art below. A medical illustration is a form of biological illustration that helps to record and disseminate medical, anatomical, and related knowledge.

      Below are two diagrams of the body in black and white and one in full color. Gender is not included in the illustrations. 

       Children may print them out and hang them inside their doll hospital rooms, doll doctor's office, patient waiting rooms etc... Illustrations here are for play only. Do not take them and give them away from alternative websites or sell them for profit folks.

Body diagram, includes organs, front view, in black and white

Body diagram includes organs, in black and white, back view.

Body Atlas, frontal view, in full color.

 

The Following Free Topography Coloring Pages Are For Study of Human Anatomy:

• Color topography of Human Abdominal Areas
• Color the Blood Supply from Your Large Intestine
• Color the Human Heart
• Color topography of the Human Head, Neck and Pharynx

Plans

       No firecrackers, and no toy pistols!" exclaimed Ibee Brave to his Sister Soami, when she told him about the lesson given the girls' class the day before. "That's all right for girls, but I can't imagine boys on the glorious Fourth without firecrackers and pistols!"

       'You wait until you hear what Miss Helpem told us. Your lesson comes this afternoon, doesn't it change your mind," prophesied Soami.

       "Pooh!" exclaimed Ibee. "I bet I don't! of a fellow would I be, with a brother off with the troops in Mexico, if I were afraid of a toy pistol!"

       "Oh, dear me," laughed Soami, "you don't understand. It's not the pistol you ought to be afraid of; it's..."

       "Oh, say, talk sense, can't you?" exclaimed Ibee. "What are you driving at, anyhow?"

       'That's all for the present, class," replied Soami. tantalizingly, as she ran off with Angie, who had just appeared.

       Ibee decided to hunt up Tom Holden before going to class, to find out what he knew. But Tom hadn't heard anything about the question.

       "I don't see any harm in a few proper celebrations," said Tom. "What's Miss Helpem's idea, I wonder?"

       By the time the class assembled all the boys had heard something about "Miss Helpem's Fourth of July idea," and there was an unusual air of expectancy as the assistant nurse came into the class room carrying what do you think? a toy pistol, a bunch of tiny firecrackers, a bunch of medium-sized firecrackers, and some "giant cannon" crackers. Of course, they were very tiny, just the right size for Mary Frances' dolls. The "cannon" crackers were like the tinest real ones you ever saw.

       Miss Helpem had just laid them all on the little glass table near the little glass medicine closet, when Shesa Brave came in carrying a little cannon which would really "go off, if loaded."

       The boys certainly were surprised, for they thought they were to hear these very toys condemned.

       "Good afternoon, boys," smiled Miss Helpem, straightening her cap. "This is to be a very interesting lesson. It's our Fourth of July lesson, even though the Fourth doesn't come until next Tuesday. I hope we are all going to have a grand time on the Fourth. The girls' class have planned their part in the town event. Doctor Surecure is in charge, you know. He is planning a civic and patriotic celebration. I shall ask Miss Shesa to read you the program. You will notice that your space is left blank. That is, left open so that we may fill it in to-day. Now, Shesa, read if you please."

       Shesa read the Program for Fourth of July Celebration.

PROGRAM FOR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION

10.00 A. M. Bugle Call to Village Green.

10.05 A. M. Music by Town Band.

10.10 A. M. Reading of Declaration of Independence. By the Mayor.

10.20A.M. Flag Raising. Singing: "Star Spangled Banner."

10.30 A. M. Parade Assembles.

11.00 A. M. Parade Moves:

• Up Main Street.
• Through River Avenue.
• Along Lake Drive.
• Down Main Street to Village Green.

Order of Parade: 

1. Master of Ceremonies on Horseback. 
2. Town Council on Horseback. 
3. Hearus Band. 
4. The Red, White and Blue. Borne by Six Boy Scouts.
   The Boy Scouts. (Who will arrange their own program.) 
5. Float: Camp Fire Girls. 
6. The Spirit of 70. 
7. Float: Our Veterans. 
8. Float: The Spirit of 1010. 
9. Floats: First Aiders: (a) Girls. (6) Boys. 
10. Future Citizens: 
11. Baby Parade.
12. Float: Our Hope. School House, over which the Dove of Peace hovers with outstretched wings, just under the American Flag. 
13. Decorated Dollsmobiles. (Best to be awarded a silver cup.)

Intermission.

2.00 P. M. Bugle Call to Village Green.

2.05 P. M. Music by Hearus Band. Reading of Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg. By the Mayor.

2.15 P. M. Work Horse Parade. & Pony Parade.

3.00 P. M. Prizes Awarded.

3.15 P. M. Singing "America."

3.30 P. M. Races:

• Sack Race.
• Three-legged Race. (By girls and boys.)
• Hurdle Race.
• Fencing Contest. (Between two boys.)

5. Flag Drill. By Boy Scouts and Blue Birds.

4.30 P. M. Music Hearus Band.

5.00 P. M. Regatta on Looking Glass Lake.

       In the evening, fireworks will be set off on the Village Green in front of Town Hall. Music by Hearus Band.

Notice to the Public.

       It will be unlawful to use firecrackers and toy pistols or blank cartridges. By order of the Town Council. 

Signed by THE MAYOR.

       "Some program!" commented Tom Holden.

       "But why not let us have firecrackers and toy pistols?" asked Ibee Brave.

       "Yes, Miss Helpem,why not?" asked half a dozen voices.

       "I am prepared for that question," smiled the assistant nurse. "If you will kindly open your note-books, I think by the end of this lesson you will understand that it is not because anyone wishes to deny you fun that you are asked not to use these little toys," pointing to the table, "but because well, after you have heard the lesson, I think you will know something about the danger from

GUNPOWDER WOUNDS

       Gunpowder is not antiseptically clean. It is very dirty because it contains so many of the deadly germs of lockjaw.

       This germ has such a terrible effect upon the body that if not destroyed in time, it causes the jaws to lock so tightly together that they cannot be forced open. Gradually the patient starves to death and finally dies in terrible convulsions of pain.

       Toy pistols, firecrackers, blank cartridges, being loaded with gunpowder are very dangerous playthings, and their use should be discouraged. Any physician or nurse will tell you that the hospitals have many deaths from tetanus (lockjaw) after the Fourth of July.

WHAT TO DO FOR POWDER WOUNDS

       See a doctor.

       Absolutely every wound of this character must be treated with anti-tetanic serum.

       If doctor is not seen immediately, paint with iodine and anoint with Vaseline: but the doctor must be seen.

       "We never understood the dangers before, Miss Helpem. Now, what will we have in that parade?" spoke up the scout patrol leader.

       "We need decide only about the float of the first-aiders," said Miss Helpem. "Your scout-master will confer with you scouts as to the other part of the program."

       "Oh, yes," rejoined the patrol leader; "but, Miss Helpem and Miss Shesa, have you thought out anything for our first-aiders' float?"

       "To confess the truth," laughed the nurse, "I think Miss Shesa has no less than twenty ideas. Will you make a few suggestions to the boys?" turning to her.

       "Miss Helpem has more ideas in a minute than I have in an hour," began Shesa, "but she thought one of my ideas good. It seemed to me that you boys might fix up an improvised first-aid tent on your float, leaving it on the Village Green after the parade. In case any real accident occurred, Miss Helpem could have at hand everything she needed for somebody might be foolish enough to get hurt. Then you could really do a little actual service by being at her call."

       "It sounds wonderfully important," said the patrol leader.

       "Only I do wish you boys had had some lessons in bandaging," commented Miss Helpem. "But we'll all do our best, anyway, and look forward with pleasure to those lessons."

       "Why couldn't we have a little chap all bandaged up, with that toy cannon at his feet and a string of firecrackers and a toy pistol in his hands, with a printed card on him saying, 'I used these toys on the Fourth and another little perfectly well chap all dressed in bunting, carrying a flag and holding a horn, bearing a sign, 'I didn't'?" asked the patrol loader.

       "That's a fine idea," said Ibee Brave, "but where do we come in?"

       "We? Oh, we... ' the patrol leader answered so lamely that everybody laughed. 

       "I can tell you, boys, a good way to be better prepared for important work," said Miss Helpem. "If you are willing to take two more lessons before the Fourth, I feel quite certain Miss Shesa will show you the simplest first-aid bandages. She has been taking a full course in first-aid at the hospital, you know. Then, on the float, you may adjust bandages to each other."

       "That's awfully kind of Miss Shesa," said the leader. "Will all you fellows come?"

       Everybody said yes, and the class was dismissed.

       "Say, I wonder what the girls are going to do," ex-

claimed Tom Holden suddenly on the way home.

       "That's so ! I wonder why we didn't ask? " said another boy.

       "I'll try to find out," said Ibee Brave. 

"That's a fine idea"

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Plans,  13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 

A Sane Fourth of July

       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.

Triangular Bandages.

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:

1. To hold dressings (compresses) in place.
2. 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.

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.

       "Indeed no, thank you, Doctor," laughed Mary Frances Helpem, coming up at that moment. 'To the boys and girls of the classes belongs that praise."

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, A Sane Fourth of July,  14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 

X-rays for Your Doll Doctor's Office

X-ray images - An X-ray, or X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

 

       The following x-rays have been adapted for child play and do not show any body parts that reveal gender. There are both white and black backgrounds for each x-ray image. 

       These are for children to print freely, however, they are not to be redistributed from any alternative websites folks. They are the property of the Doll Coloring Book staff.

X-rays of a rib cage and x-rays of leg bones.

X-rays of lungs, a foot and a living skull.

X-rays of hands and a wrist.

X-rays of a rib cage and x-rays of leg bones.

X-rays of lungs, a foot and a living skull.

X-rays of hands and a wrist.

Hurrah for Our Hero!

       The Brave family were not the only people who admired Private Brave's cheerful acceptance of his fate and his determination to make his left hand learn to do the work of two hands.

       One day when he was running the lawn mower over the lawn in front of the house, Doctor Quickenquack stopped in his dollsmobile.

       "Hello, how's the ' General'?" he called. " Can't you jump in and take a ride? Hope you're not too busy to have a little holiday."

       "Thank you, Doctor," said Private Brave, "it's certainly kind of you to ask me. Will you wait until I put this mower away and get my coat? "

       He had to lock the door, for none of the family wore home, but he hopped into the car in a minute's time. The doctor started the engine and away they rode toward Painted River and Looking Glass Lake. It was a beautiful morning and Private Brave enjoyed the ride very much.

       "If you will just let me out here, I'll walk home from this corner," said he as they came to River Avenue.

       "Not much, sir; you're kidnapped," laughed the doctor as he drove on toward the hospital.

       "First, your lunch; then a visit to the boys' ward" said the doctor. "That's your program, sir." 

       Private Brave was delighted with the idea, and how he enjoyed his lunch after the ride!

       When he went with the doctor to the boys' ward, you can't imagine how surprised he was to see all his own family. Not only they were there, but also the boys' class and the girls' class in first-aid.

       Besides these, wore Miss Bossem and Miss Helpem and Doctor Surecure and even the ambulance driver, Billy.

       Doctor Quickenquack led Private Brave under an American flag which was draped in one corner of the room.

       "Dear Private Brave," said Doctor Surocuro, clearing his throat, "it is my pleasure to present to you a gift from some of your many admiring friends."

       Private Brave blushed at the praise, and smiled as Miss Helpem carried forward a box which she placed on the little table beside him.

       He opened the lid and lifted out a beautiful little hand-embroidered silk flag.

       "Perhaps we'd better help you open the box the rest of the way," suggested Doctor Sun-cure. "Let us step into the next room."

       When the doctors and Private Brave came back- what do you think? Private Brave was waving the beautiful little silk Hag in the hand of a new wooden arm, so skilfully made that it had almost human action.

       "Hurrah!" shouted the boys and girls in delight. "Hurrah! Hurrah for Private Brave! Hurrah for Our Hero!"

       "Hurrah! Hurrah!" they shouted together at the top of their lungs. 

He opened the lid and lifted out a beautiful little hand-embroidered silk flag.

"Hurrah for Private Brave! He's

Prepared for less,
Prepared for more,
Prepared for peace,
Prepared for war!

Prepared for well,
Prepared for ill,
Prepared to save
The doctor's bill!

Prepared for calm,
Prepared for strife,
Prepared for anything
In life!

       "Oh, Billy," cried Mary Frances, after it was all over, "I'm so thankful to you for your birthday present."

       "What do you mean?" yawned Billy.

       ''Why, for the day we've just spent together in the playroom," said Mary Frances.

       "Don't know what you're talking about," pretended Billy.

       "Why, Billy!" Mary Frances laughed. "If you will just put a triangular bandage on my hand with your handkerchief, you'll remember."

       Billy put it on beautifully, just as you snw it shown on Mary Frances' doll in the picture.

       "Now, you remember, Mr. Ambulance Driver!" cried Mary Frances, shaking her finger.

       "I don't seem to remember a thing about how I learned," solemnly declared Billy.

       "Why, certainly you do. You learned in the Dolls' Hospital," cried Mary Frances.

       "Oh, maybe but don't tell anybody about it, though I must say that a knowledge of bandaging will be most useful when the boy scouts commence their class in advanced first-aid work."

There they were!

        "Will Miss Bossem be their teacher?" teased Mary Frances.

       "Aw! Stop talking about that doll of yours dressed up as a nurse, Mary Frances! We boys are beyond the doll-baby age!" Billy walked away in pretended disgust.

       "Well," said Mary Frances to herself, "if Billy hadn't known how to put on that bandage I would think I had been dreaming. I know what I'll do! I'll go see if there are any nurses' uniforms in the playroom."

       There they were! Each girl doll had one on, just as she wore it at the Fourth of July celebration.

       "It must have been real!" concluded Mary Frances. "It must have been! That proves it! Besides, here is Private Brave, and in his wooden hand he is holding the flag!

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, Hurrah for Our Hero!