SICK ROOM HINTS.
If you have to consider a permanent invalid pay great attention to the decoration of the sick room. The walls should be distempered, with very few pictures, and these should be changed as often as possible. Cultivate window-flowers, and see that tli© flowers are removed immediately the - have lost their first youth. Alter the arrangement of the room, so that the invalid does not always stare at one particular piece of furniture. Tn fact, it is a good idea to have very little furniture, and to sometimes change it with pieces from other rooms. Remove all foods, cups, glasses etc., directly they are not needed. Nothino- is more disgusting to the invalid than to gaze on soiled crockery or fragments of a past meal. Do not disturb an invalid immediately after a meal, it is l>est to leave her alone for the sake of digestion and nerves. An invalid will frequently doze after having taken food, and these quiet momenta will prove invaluable to her system. Children should never l>e taken into an invalid’s room for more than a few 1 minutes at a time. Th© little ones cannot be expected to bft quite still. Nothing is more fatiguing to an invalid than rapid and continuous movement in tho room.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 10
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213SICK ROOM HINTS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 10
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