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Show CALLING ON THE SICK. 1. Only call at the door, urdesf yo-; are sure your friend is ablo to sec ynij without harm. 2. Enter and leave the house, and move about the room quietly. 3. Carry a cheerful face. Speak cheerful, pleasant words. 4. In order to cheer, you need tell no lies. 5. If your friend is1 very ill. do not fall into gav or carelefs talk in the attempt at-tempt to be cheerful. 6. Don't ask questions, thus obli?;r;g your friend to talk. " 7. Talk about something outside, and not about the disease and circumstances circum-stances of the patient. S. Tell the news, but not the list of the sick or dying. 0. If possible, take something with you to please the eye and relieve th monotony of the sick room: a flower or even a picture which you can loan for a few days. 10. If desirable, some little delicacy to tempt the appetite will be well bestowed. be-stowed. 1L The perfume of some flowers is poisonous, and they should never ha carried into the sick room. Especially is this true of the tuberose, oleand-rr, hyacinth, heliotrope, crange lila, syringa and lilies. 12. Stay only a moment or a minutes at the longest, unless you can I be of some help. I |