San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-15
SET THE DOGS BROKEN LEG.
A Girl Who Knows How to Handle
Bandages and Splints.

Two young women-school girls, in
fact-stood in one of the wards of the
Fowler hospital in this city not many
days ago and watched with interest
the deft fingers of a surgeon as he
treated and bandaged the broken arm
of an adult patient. The girls wereno
there because of mere curiosity, but
by appointment TO take a practical
lesson in the application of splints and
bandages. In several hospitals visit
ors of this class are, at stated periods,
accorded similar privileges.
Instructions in the matter of dress
ing and bandaging a cut, bruise or
broken bone constitute especial branch
of study in many private schools for
girls, and occasionally arrangements
are made by the teachers to take a
limited number of pupils into the hos
pitfalls, to observe and study the work
of the skilled surgeons and nurses. In
most cases the hospital authorities and
Attendants have taken especial pains to
aid the ambitious school girls in ac-
curing the knowledge necessary to fit
them for emergency service. With
some young women the handling of
splints and bandages has almost be-
come fad. The sale of bandage rolls
in the pharmacies and in some of the
department stores has increased per-
ceptibly since so many of the city
schools have added emergency serv-
ice' instruction to their other depart
ments.
That the girl who knows what to
do in an emergency" is not creature of
the imagination was demonstrated on
West Seventy-second street one day re-
Gently in the presence of a policeman
and dozen women and children. A
vagrant dog had been run over by a
heavy wagon, and was found on Sew
enty-second street, just west of Co
lumbus avenue, moaning pitifully with
a broken leg. Some sympathetic ladies'
hunted up a policeman, and the latter
was about to shoot the animal when a
self-possessed, energetic girl inter
posed and begged to be allowed to at
tend to the dog herself. HE does not
want to be killed." said the girl. "See
the pleading expression in his eyes.
Let me examine the injury" Remov-
ing her gloves, she felt the dogs
wounded leg with an air of profess
sional and the tenderness of her sex.
"Oh! think it only simple fracture"
she remarked. Il can mend it if you
will let me, Mr.. Police Officer?"
Tho opE rnllal ~ L.
emergency girl set about her task with
delightful composure. She coolly
pressed the small boys among the on
lockers into service. Her home was
near by, and she sent one boy there for
some bandages; another boy she dis
patched to a corner grocery for an
empty peach basket, and one of the
sympathetic ladies who had hunted up
the policeman was commissioned to GO
to the nearest drug store for some
arnlca. When her simple appliances
arrived she spread newspaper on the
edge of the sidewalk and sat down be-
side the dog. The policeman whitfield
some splints from the peach basket
and in a very few minutes the girl had
them neatly and firmly bound around
the dogs injured leg. So daintily die
she work that the animals moaning
gave way to an occasional plaintivC
yelp, and when she picked him up K
carry him to her home he nestled in hen
arms with almost human affection.
The police officer escorted the emer
gency girl to the door of her residence
and left her with cordial expressions O.
admiration and respect.-N. Y. Times