IN THE SICK ROOM.
THE INVALID SAYS. Don’t write to say you are coming and then not turn up. I lie and watcii the clock, and the disappointment is out of proportion to the offence. Don’t creep 1 Tip-toeing on polished floors makes a horrid, squeaking noise, and you are much more likely to slip andj. fall—perhaps on mel Don’t sit on the bed. Even eight .'Stones of'dieted humanity sends a spring mattress up on one side, and shifts all' the pillows on which I am leaning. Don’t forget that my eyes are weak, and that I want to look straight at you, not round the corner. Don’t tell me that I look wonderfully well, or dreadfully ill. I should miss any kind enquiries, but I love to hear bits of gossip, or harmless scandal, and I simply hate those friends of yours who had operations “exactly like yours” 1 Don’t come out of visiting hours. Even nurses are human, and bang about When “put out” I
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)
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