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Show ALL THINGS IN PROPORTION. Invalid's Meal Evidently Had Not Increased In-creased Good Humor. For many weeka tho Irritable merchant mer-chant had been riveted to his bed by typhoid fever. Now ho wns convalescing. conva-lescing. Ho clamored for something to eat, declaring that lie was starving. starv-ing. "To-morrow you may have something some-thing to eat," promised the doctor. The merchant realized that there would bo u restraint to his appotlte, yet ho saw, In vision, a modest, steaming steam-ing meal placed at his bedside. "Here is your dinner," said tho jntrso next day, as she pave thu glowering glow-ering patient a spoonful of laploca pudding, "nnd the doctor emphasizes Hint everything olso you do must bu in the samo proportion." Two hours later tho nurso heard a frantic call from the bed chamber. "Nurse," breathed the man heaplly, "I want to do somo reading, bring mo a postngo stamp." |