The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-04-06

When mild-eyed. yet militant SUI
fragette doubles up her little fist and
swats London bobby in his optic the
injury is called "franch-eyes, by the
facetious ambulance surgeons. It's
new kind of accident and requires
a distinctive name. There are lots
of queer accidents. however, which
have regular old-fashioned names.
Men have dislocated their shoulders
raising the convivial glass. Not SO
! long ago a quick-lunch patron Tell
of a high STOOL dislocated his wrist
and nearly swallowed silver spoon.
A soldier dislocated his ankle when
on the double quick. If all the cases
of out of joint that have been record
ed at the hospitals recently were 10
be confined in one ward the beds
might appropriately be marked laugh
ing, yawning. curling iron, dancing
hobble skirt, etc.
One of the oldest sounding acct
dents was that to well-known New
York newspaper man named FRANK
Jones. who telephoned the office that
he could not come to work, as he
had cut his foot while shaving In
yestigation proved that he had
dropped his razor and, stepping back
ward, had trodden on it.
Chester Turner, of Hanover, Mass,
awoke on the morning of December
10 and found he could not move lie
had dislocated his hip while asleep.
Patrolman Edward S. Gardner. OF
Traffic Squad c, New York, dis
mounted from his horse at the Broad
way.Forty second crossing, slapped
his cold hands together to stimu-
late circulation and dislocated his
shoulder.
The experience of Chester Turner
and Patrolman Gardner illustrate the
fact that it does not take a great deal
to upset a Joint All that is neces-
sary being just the right sort or a
| little twist or wrench at just the right
place and given in just the right way
Thousands of women are daily
curling their back hair without meet
! ing accident, and yet not long ago a
woman dislocated her shoulder doing
that very thing. And, again, Miss
Edith Bodman. of Springfield, Mass,
had her shoulder dislocated and her
right arm broken by tripping on the
train of her gown and falling to the
floor.
Instances of people yawning their
Jaws out of joint are numerous. Louis
n. Hurley, of Asbury Park, an insur-
ance agent, yawned one evening until
he experienced a double dislocation OF
the Jaws, and a doctor had good
job of setting it again.
John Deakin, of No. 1906 Atlantic
avenue, Brooklyn, had little differ
ent experience, however; he yawned
until he dislocated his shoulder. And
Miss Alys Cushing. of Denver, aWak-
ing one morning, stretched and yawn-
ed until she unjointed her neck and
it took an osteopath to get it back
into place again.
Emil Williams, of No. 10 West
Eighteenth street, New York, yawn-
ed and yawned until there was a click
and a hitch and he couldn't shut his
mouth again He ran into the street
and began making such queer signs
that a passerby called a policeman
who was finally made to understand
that the man was suffering from q
dislocation of the jaw and sent in an
ambulance call Before the arrival
of the ambulance, however, the po-
liceman thought he would try an eX-
pertinent on the sufferer and taking
| his night stick he hit Williams q
short. sharp rap on the jaw and i'm
mediately the greater maXillary
snapped back into place, and when
the surgeon came he examined the
joint and found it all right.
The hobble skirt claimed several
victims. Not long ago Miss Winifred
Lawrence, of Milwaukee, in trying tc
take long steps in order to clear q
small mud-puddle was tripped by heI
hobble skirt, thrown violently to the
pavement and received badly
sprained ankle. But an even more
recent case is that of Miss Jane Com
ming. of No. 173 West Forty-fifth
street, New York. who was tripped
by her hobble skirt while descending
a flight of stairs and fell, breaking
her hip and receiving internal injur
les of a serious character
John ]. Jordan of Sioux City, Iowa
broke his finger by exerting too mucl
force in taking off sock 1t seems
his garter caught, and when he gave
1t a good yank his finger snapped.
Edmond L. Knoedler, of the ar
firm of Knoedler & Co, New York
who is a golf enthusiast, broke a les
and dislocated an ankle in making {