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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.

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