How To Say It To The Sick.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19036, 3 April 1930, Page 6

How To Say It To The Sick .

A Woman’s View.

The gracious presence of their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, by the bedside of the sick and aged is an example that we all admit ought to be followed more frequently. There is an art in sick visiting. Here, as in other directions, the happy idea is to' “say it with flowers.” The enterprising person who opened a flower shop near a private hospital, in that act, expresses a belief in the messages of fragrant posies. On the other hand the unimaginative legislators who decided that fruiterers must not sell flowers after 5.30 p.m. more or less forced the evening visitor to go emptyhanded. But if you cannot carry flowers take some interesting little bit of news. Let your visit be bright and brief. Do not talk too long, for brevity is ever the soul of wit. The day of the. patient is long. Even the fly on the ceiling excites attention, and your visit may be that day’s great event. It is something to tell one’s more intimate friends about. Your news will not lose any of its flavour. B.E.S.