with the Sash Door and Mitl Workers

A LOVELY FIGURED GUM DOOR FROM KOEHL'S NEW CATALOGUE

Here is a picture of one of the "doggiest" doors in the new catalogue just issued by John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles. It is a veneered door of Figured Gum, Segment Head, Irregular V.J.O.S., Moulded Water Table, Scrolled Apron, the nerv look-out type that is so appealing of late to the builder of fine homes. It is builtin regulation Koehl fashion on a core built entirely of one species of wood and perfectly surfaced, and is a strictly high class piece of goods.

By the way, the new Catalogue in which this appears is a very attractive job. They call it "Flush Door Bulletin

..FIRST AID ROOM'' IS INTERESTING DEPARTMENT OF CRESMER PLANT AT RIVERSIDE

One of the very interesting departments in the very modern and attractive millwork plant of The Cresmer Manufacturing Company, at Riverside, Calif., is their "First Aid Department". The management requires that the minute a man gets hurt, even though the injury be ever so slight, that he go at once to the "First Aid Room", in the main office building, and have it taken care of. The men in the office are trained and equipped to take care of him. The injury is cared for immediately, and the infections that cause so much trouble and expense to the average plant are entirely eliminated. If the injury is sufficient to require the attention of a doctor, the office brings in their physician at once. They have saved themselves much trouble and expense by this completely equipped little hospital department, which contains every convenience for "First Aid" attention.

Splinter Wounds

A splinter lvound may include anything from the "garden variety" of black specks in the skin, to the eight-inch timber removed recently from the buttock of a boy who used a home-made slide of rough lumber. Not long ago a man reported with a three-inch hardwood splinter running the whole length of his finger. The wood was completely hidden but the finger was as stifi as if it had no joints. A more common variety of accident is the "subungual" splinter, i.e., running under the nail, partway to the base or even beyond the cuticle along the back of the finger. Of most importance, however, are the infected splinter wounds.

Fortunately, most splinter wounds heal at once without evidence of infection, but every one is potentially infected. Only the surgeon's cut in the operating room with boiled scalpel through carefully prepared skin can be considered "clean". E,very wound of the worker's soiled skin with tool or wood contains germ infection at the very start.

It requires a few days for these few germs to incubate and on the third or fourth day or later the injured individual decides that there is a piece of wood still in the wound. Occasionally this is found to be the case, but more often a small abscess or accumulation of pus is found where the sprlinter inoculated the deep tissues. Very seldom are these infections serious but every year some men spend a few days in the hospital to overcome the resultant blood poisonlng.

No. 3", and contains nine brand new door designs which Koehl is offeriug to a particular trade. Shown and described in this bulletin is a plain slab Philippine Mahogany door, a Quartered Oak slab V.J.O.S., a White Pine Door Half Circle Head with Random V.J.O.S., a plain Oak door with Elliptical Head and Rectangular Light, a Fir door with Tudor Head Shaped R.M.O.S., a Juana Costa door of lovely design, a Black Walnut door with Rectangular Sash to swing and three spindles in front of sash and the ninth door here pictured.

Al Koehl says if you haven't this Bulletin and want it, drop him a line at 652-676 South Meyers Street, Los Angeles.

How shall we avoid the dangers of these wounds ? First, examine them critically to see whether they go through the skin or merely into the skin. The latter very seldom give trouble. Those through the skin demand attention. Do not take out a jackknife and carve yourself. Wash the hand thoroughly, "prepare the surgical field" and then have a clean instrument used to renlove the splinter. If it is deep, a local anaesthetic helps.

Then the after-care. Keep the small wound bandaged until it is entirely well, not just for a few hours. Hot ap- plications night and morning for a day or two on even the most innocent appearing puncture wounds will further reduce the number of bothersome and dangerous infections.

"Safety First," our motto.

-Dr. Norman C. Paine in "Stiles and Pails."