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Of Life Saving
By Paul William Gartner
Back in the days when I was little
more than excess baggage on an out-
door excursion, I happened to see a
near tragedy in the Minnesota north
woods. A canoe bearing a wiry In-
dian guide and a white man of con-
siderable weight capsized about 100
yards offshore in the frigid waters of
early spring. Neither the Indian nor
the white man was a capable swim-
mer, and in the case of the latter the
suddenness of the plunge, the cold-
ness of the water, and the encum-
brance of heavy clothing had him
fighting desperately for air in less
than a minute. He was within ten
feet of the inverted canoe, but he
might as well have been ten miles, so
blind and frantic had the fear of
death made him. The guide hacl suc-
ceeded
un-ceeded in grasping an end of the
craft, but apparently was unable to
aid him without coming within reach
of the powerful clutching arms.
The party to which I belonged was
without water craft, but an oldest
member, an excellent swimmer, quick-
ly took off most of his clothing and
then swam, without haste, it seemed,
toward the scene of the mishap. I
recall having criticized, with the im-
pulsiveness of youth, his slow pro-
gress.
I was further shocked to behold the
rescuer, upon reaching the drowning
man, deliberately evade the clutching'
arms and livid face and swim to the
canoe, where he clung for at least 30
seconds, unquestionably resting. Short-
ly,
hort3y, however, with the aid of the guide,
he drew the canoe to the now feebly
struggling man, who was very near to
death, I presently learned. Indeed,•
when he was finally brought to shore
no indication of life was apparent—
yet,
pparentyet, he was revived by the prone
pressure method of artificial respire -
tion after more than an hour of appli-
cation.
Proficiency in life saving is the re-
sult of cool, deliberate thinking, as in
the incident just given. In the first
place the rescuer removed practically
all of his clothing—as any person
should do who finds himself •sudden-
ly confronted with a considerable
swim to safety. Swimming at what
appeared to be a slow rate of speed
toward the drowning man was another
exaraele of sensible procedure. Even
the seasoned life guard cannot swim
at the same rate for 200 yards that he
can for 50, ai 4 in either case he must
have considerable reserve energy af-
ter he has arrived. A good swimmer
could be drowned in less than a min-
ute by a desperate, fighting victim.
Indeed, battling with a subject who
has felt the icy breath of death re-
quires almost titautic energy.
The best way to deal with strangle
holds is to avoid them; that is to
say, the -drowning person should be
approached from the rear whenever
possible. This strategy keeps the res-
cuer free of the other's arms and
gives him opportunity to gain a good
carrying grip.
Sometimes, before approaching, it
Is advisable to wait for a fighting per-
son to exhaust himself, although it
may not seem humane. This precludes
the possibility that he will attempt to
climb to the highest point at hand
which, of course, is the top of the
rescuer's head.
But despite all precautions there
are occasions when a drowning per-
son will obtain what ' 1 commonly
called a death hold on a would-be res-
cuer. In this contingency the rescuer
should remember to take a deep
breath -1f he can—and then without
hesitation to submerge himself with
the drowning person. This move will
tend to niak.e the subjeet release the
hold as he struggles to climb upward
again. The rescuer can utilize this
tendency, in case of a front strangle
hold, by shoving him upward, The
back -strangle held Is broken by twist-
ing a subject's arm, by elbow and
wrlst, into an arm lock. The feet at
times can be brought into play, not in
a kick but In a powerful shove against
the subject's shoulder. The carries
for towing drowning persons to safety
all follow the principles of maintain-
ing the subject in a horizontal posi-
tions and of keeping the rescuer out
of hie reach. t
But it Is frequently after the near
Victim has been towed to safety that
tiomo of the most difficult life-saving
problenls Are Paced, espceially If the
Imaisimusrualmmalata
has ceased to breathe. however, arti-
ficial respiration is adopted only when
the subject is not breathing, If he is
unconscious, but breathing faintly,
aromatic spirits should be applied to
the nose and• he should be massaged
toward the heart, and kept warm.
As a rule, swallowed water is not
dangerous, although it may bring a
seizure of sickness. -It is the water
on the lungs which paralyzes the' dia-
phragm. A man can fast for 40 days
or more' if plentifully supplied with
water, but if his diaphragm is paral-
yzed for three minutes he may die.
In this case never give mouth stimu-
lants, for they will merely clog the
throat passages. What must be ac-
complished is the removal of water
from the lungs and the stimulation of
respiration and heart action. And,
without apparatus, the prone pressure
method of artificial respiration (resus-
citation) is the simplest and most.ef-
fective method known to achieve this
end. The method may be used with
equal success in cases of suffocation
by gas or smoke.
• The victim should be placed face
, downward, arms up to allow the lungs
their fullest expansion. Naturally the
throat and mouth should be opened
and cleared as well as they may be.
Then the operator, on knees astraddle
the subject's thighs, places his' hand
on the small ribs of the back with the
fingers along the sides. Pressure is
induced by swinging forward slowly,
arms straight, thus contracting the
lungs, and releasing with a snap which
causes the lungs to expand and inhale.
With the incoming air water will tend
to be displaced and forced out. Pres-
sure is applied for approximately
three seconds with two seconds be-
tween contacts,. thus allowing between
10 and 12 movenr nts of compression
and release each •minute. Resuscita-
tion should be ..ontinued until the pa-
tient starts to breathe again, which
may not be for several hours.
Liquid mouth stimulants, such as
hot coffee or tea, should never be ad-
ministered until the patient is fully
conscious. He should be wrapped in
warm blankets, for it is heat, both ex-
ternal and internal, which is essential
for a complete lecovery.
The swimming method can proper-
ly be considered only the last resort
in the performance of a rescue. It is,
by far, more practicable to use a boat
or to throw a life preserver. Some
very effective rescues have been per-
formed with the aid of a pole. One
should never' hesitate to throw some
object that will serve to buoy another
up, a bit of wood, a chair, table, or
box, if nothing more suitable Is at
hand. I know of an instance when an
individual was saved from drowning
by a man who could not swim but
who had the presence of mind to
shove into the water a municipal park
bench. It is not colorful rescues that
the world desires, but safe ones.—
"The Sportsman."
Queer
She's very likely, any minute,
To lose her purse and al lthe money
in it;
But not the verse she made at break
of day,
Scrawled while she dressed, and
tucked somewhere away.
At tea -time, Sirius, miles above,
Is nearer to her than her kitchen
stove;
And should her laver chance to bring
A rose, she likes it better than a ring,
She hears, in some tall pine or other,
The wind, but not the wise words of
'her mother.
--Lillian Miner, in The Common-
weal.
•
"Do you favor compelling mar•
ried men to wear thumb rings to
distinguish them from single mon?"
"It's not at all necessary, No
husband who's been properly train-
ed can ever be mistaken for a
single Mari."
Owl Las ,
Two tramps met at the end of a long
and unsuccessful day's begging, 13oth
were tired end hungry.
Bank—"Didn't you make anything,
T3i11? What about that house I saw
You looking at—the big Ono with, the
open window?"
Bill—"Didn't trouble to ask, I look-
ed in the window and saw two gir#s
playing on one Piano, so I gueseecl
they were too poor for me to worrY"
A ladies' aid society is .a grope of
women organized to pry the preacher's
salary loose from their husbands,
Miss Smoke and Mr, Ash were mar-
ried recently at Iowa City, Iowa. Mr.
Ash is instructor at University of Mi
sours, but teaches English and nt
chemistry, by way of proving thereola
nothing in a name.
"Turn off the heat:"
Where were the Clinkers?
The children should be refined. .:t
The heat of passion had vanisllede
"Where there is smokethere is
fire."
The bride was a bit dense but the
groom was fine.
"There'll be hot time in the old
town. to -night."
Other columnists are welcome to
what is left.
Little -Daughter—"Why is father
singing so much to -night?"
Mother—"He Is trying to sing the
baby to sleep."
Little Daughter—"Weil, if I was
baby, I'd pretend I was asleep "
Caution to Young Editors.
If you take the advice of the fellow
who says he doesn't care to see his
name in the paper, you are making a
great mistake.
Clarence—"Do you know what your
ono great defect is?"
Isabel—"I simply can't think."
Clarence—"Right—but I didn't think
you'd acknowledge it."
A. man unaccustomed to praising his
wife went out of his way to call her an
angel. "Mary," he said one morning
recently, "you are an angel," and she
felt charmed all day. In the evening
she ventured to ask him why she had
been so.. honored. "Well," said the
wily man, "you are always flitting
about; you are always harping on
things; and by your own account, you
have nothing to wear."
Alexander—"Which is right; 'The
girl began to walk home,' or 'The girl
started to walk home'?"
Horatio—"Who was the girl?"
1
FINDS TURTLE IN SWIMMING'
POOL
Sucked in by the hose pipe used
to 1111 the deck pool on the Cunard-
er Mauretania during week -end
cruises, the baby turtle in the pic-
ture was found swimmeng in the sea
water by Miss Edith McNutt, a voy-
ager. She decided to make a pet
of It and evidently seems satisfied
with her success.
}
Declares Plants Have
,< Regular Sleeping Hours
IPlants sleep too—some by day and
some by night.. A flashlight expedi-
tion to a garden reveals a sleepy crew,
as different from the bold' Iife of day
hours as human beings curled in sleep
are from human beings rushing for
suburban trains. Dawn is too late, and
dusk is too soon—oue must catch the
plants after they have had time to
respond to total darkness, to the fall
in temperature and to the action of
the dew.
i "rhe beans droop; the pea blossoms
nod; that succulent but accursed weed
pudslane turns its leaves edge upward
instead of spreading them Sat upon
the ground. The clover folds its tre-
foils in various patterns, sometimes
bowing the third leaflet over the others
as if in benediction. The single roses
told all their petals inward; the pop- I
pies shut up like clamshells; the as-
ters curl their petals inward.
Meanwhile the scraggly evening
primrose of the roadside seems to don I
fresh clothes at dusk, a coarse -leaved
weed that sometimes fools the care-
less weeder of a calendula bed and
always looks withered in daylight
may be goldF"' out it evi- a opens fresh petals and becomes a gar-
Silencedently takes a greenback to make t den onnaanent—it is the evening lych-
so, according to the fellow who tei