Small Visitor To Hospital Finds All Home Comforts

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 63, 14 November 1949, Page 5

Small Visitor To Hospital Finds All Home Comforts

Last Wednesday \one of the Beacon’s town runners was late; on the job. Naturally, he heard about it, but his explanation just had to bb accepted. This lad, it seems, has a little sister aged three. And, like mo'st little sisters of that age, she is occasionally afflicted with the wandering sickness. Just toddles off with never a thought for the disturbance back at the old homestead.

This day her wayward feet took her over to the hospital, where 'she tried to carry on a gossip session with the housekeeper at the nurses’ home. 1 But that good lady let it be known she hadn’t much time to spare in idle chatter and advised her small visitor to go back to home and mother.

Curiosity not quite satisfied yet, the toddler thought the suggestion a little premature, but much walking had induced a certain weariness, so a siesta seemed indicated. On a nice, airy and quite deserted porch just around the corner from where she had met the housekeeper she found a very, very, inviting bed, all clean sheets and shiny enamelled framework. This, she thought, was just what the doctor would have ordered (had he known she was there). So she piled in and was soon lost in blissful slumber.

Meanwhile, there was quite a todo back home. Family, Mends and neighbours set out to comb the district on an exhaustive baby hunt that lasted all afternoon until about 5.30, when who should breeze gaily up the path. Little Sister in person, with a bright tale of high adventure, including a lyrical chapter on that lovely sleep in the hospital bed.