The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-03-22
A Chapter on Accidents.

minds of the young. Presence ofmind in
cases requiring instant attention is vir-
tue rarely cultivated, Notwithstanding all
that has been said and written on its i'm.
portance.
A young girl in one of our western
schools, surrounded by her pupils, heard a
rumbling noise, and looking from a win.
dow saw a dark funnel.shaped cloud
swiftly approaching. She understood its
meaning; and though her heart nearly
stopped beating, she turned her While
face to the children, who as yet were
ignorant of danger, and said calmly:
"Children we have often talked Of visiting
the 'Hermit's Cave Let us take little
time, and make that visit this morning.
Fall into rank aud march in double quick
time to it now. will bring up the rear
with the little ones."
Before she was through speaking the
older scholars had taken the lead, and
without speaking, the mouth of the cave
was gained just as the pillar Of cloud
came roaring across the prairie. The
children began to scream as the air grew
thick with dust and broken timbers, but a
few quiet words from the young teacher
induced them to enter the dark cave.
where they remained in safety until the
roaring and rumbling of the storm had
ceased. When they ventured outinto the
sunshine nothing but heap of stones
and splintered timbers remained to show
where the school house had stood. Had
the young teacher communicated her
alarm to the children, panic would have
ensued, and the results would have been
most disastrous.
A few years ago in school l attended a
young girl tainted and fell to the floor.
In moment the teacher had raised her
to sitting posture, and the frightened
children crowded around her, wringiug
their hands and crying. In the midst of
the confusion young miss of a dozen
years came to the rescue by stretching the
unconscious girl fiat upon her back. In
quiet firm voice she said, Mary has only
tainted, and you must stand back and
give her air. Instantly the circle that
had formed about her widened, the win
dows were thrown open, and the young
commander in a quick, calm manner pro-
ceeded to remove all the compression
about the chest of her patient. Applying
ammonia to the nostrils of the PROSTATE
girl, she waited patiently for signs of re-
turning animation, and soon we had the
satisfaction of knowing that Mary was
quite herselfagain.
"Who taught you to act so promptly,
Sarah ?" inquired the teacher when her
alarm had subsided.
"Long ago my little brother fell from
the landing st.the top Of the stairs to the
hall below, striking his head upon the
banisters in the descent. Thinking him
dead, the nurse picked him up and began
tossing him about. Mother took him
from her arms and laid him upon the
floor, setting the door wide open to give
him air. Soon he began to breathe regu-
lsrly, and then mother told US that when
people tainted or were knocked senseless
by blows about the head, they should be
laid upon their backs with their heads a
little lower than their bodies.
As fainting is caused by the failure of
the heart to supply the brain with blood,
| no one need be at loss to understand
| the advantage gained by the PROSTATE
position; yet in spite of this fact people
still continue to pile pillows under the
heads of their fainting friends, while the
child who has received q blow on the
head is jolted about roughly, or carried
| in an upright posture, as if blood could
run up hill more easily than down.
A little girl of eight who had been
| trained what to do in case of fire, was so
| unfortunate as to drop match on her
| cotton apron. Almost Immediately the
blaze flashed up in her face. Without a
| cry or a pause she threw herself face
| downward on the carpet, clapped her
hands over her mouth and nose, closed
her eyes, and rolled over and over on the
thick wooden rug, Hearing the unusual
| noise, her father hurried upstairs in time
to put out the smoldering fire. The
child's apron was in ashes, the front Of
her dress badly scorched, but beyond q
| few slight burns on the hands the brave
girl was unipjured.
When questioned about her conduct
she said, "Mamma has told me over and
over to lie down on the blaze and stop my
mouth, so as not to swallow the smoke
should I catch fire. I knew I would be
burned up if I started to run.
A patient in the dental chair failed tc
rally from the depressing effects of chic
reform, and the physician who was hasti'
ly summoned, with the help of the
attendant, dragged him to the door and
began dashing snow upon his face. The
weakened action of the heart gave out
and tbs patient lay back limp and appa
rently lifeless in their hands.
"Stand him on bis head; that's the way
father does when they don't come roune
right" said a young lad who had beer
attracted to the door by the unusual stir
So the man was turned upside down unit
signs of returning life were manifest
By that time the boys father, who wa'
one of the leading physicians of the place
arrived, and his sons timely direction
| Lo 1ro1or rooIino1 frnQt