Popular i^ricncr Monf/ih/ 



Two Boards Studded With 

 Pins Make Bandage Folder 



RED CROSS workers are 

 greatly interested in a de- 

 vice for folding bandages, which 



has been invented by Edward J. 



Seeber, of Rochester, N. Y,, and 



which is so simple that it may be 



made by anyone with the tools 



found in practically every house- 

 hold. The inventor has donated 



the free use of his invention to 



Red Cross workers everywhere. 

 The contrivance is intended 



for folding the eighty-one-inch 



bandages which form part of the 



emergency kit of every soldier 



sent to the trenches. 



It is made as follows: An up- 

 right board, fourteen inches long, 



fastened to a horizontal base, 



has a series of ten three-inch 



pins, five on each side of a center 



bracket. The strip of bandage 



is placed over these pins, with 



the center of the strip over the 



bracket. Then the follower, a 



narrow board, about nineteen inches long, 



with twelve pins, arranged in such manner 



that they will dovetail with the pins of 



the upright backboard, is employed to 



press down the strip of bandage between 



the pins of the backboard, so as to pleat 



it, accordion fashion. Two hatpins tem- 

 porarily fasten the folded bandage until 



the two halves are stitched and ready to 



be wrapped and sent out. 



In these crowded days, when the 

 compelling problem is to get the great- 

 est possible amount 

 of work done in the 

 least possible time, and 

 the dreadful nightmare 

 of our own boys bleed- 

 ing in far-off France 

 urges us on, any device 

 that increases the out- 

 put is doubly welcome, 

 and this, be- 

 ing of such 

 simple con- 

 struction, 

 will recom- 

 mend itself to 

 everyone in- 

 terested. 



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No wonder the train was twelve hours late, or that 

 the trainmen had suffered considerable hardship 



Like a Trip to the North Pole Is Rail- 

 Roading in a Blizzard 



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A home-made bandage-folder for Red 

 Cross workers. It is simple and cheap 



HAT the terrific and widespread 

 blizzards which raged through the 

 middle western and eastern parts of the 

 United States in the first week of January 

 meant in handicapping the railroads and 

 depriving large cities of coal and food is 

 shown by the accompanying picture. 

 Trains were snowed in and in 

 some cases it took several days 

 to dig them out. The 

 trainmen suffered from 

 cold and exposure to 

 the driving snow and 

 sleet, and frozen hands 

 or feet were common. 

 The accompanying pic- 

 ture is that of a loco- 

 motive of the "Soo" 

 line, which arrived in 

 Chicago after a fierce 

 battle with snow and 

 ice, which caused a de- 

 lay of twelve hours in 

 its arrival. One would 

 imagine that it had 

 been dug out of a drift. 



