Show monotonous A well known physician told a patient who he suspected was receiving too many calls from solicitous friends to make a stroke with a pencil on a piece of paper every time ho was asked how are yon today the result for one day was just 24 et rokes and the physician immediately gave strict orders that no visitor should be permitted to enter the sickroom until further notice remarking to the nurse that if his patient must be worried to death there was reason why it should bo done in such an unscientific manner only those who have suffered serious illness know how trying it is to be required to answer again and again the same question asked by one well meaning individual after another it would matter less if visitors contented themselves with asking just the one question but they do not and the minute details of ones ailments become peculiarly depressing after a few repetitions many people forget that rest and quiet are often invaluable agents in securing restoration to health philadelphia ledger |