Veronese red crepe fashions this dinner gown in the Florentine mode A gold-plaited belt encircles the waistline.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 14

When Friends Are HI. So many people are subject to illness at this time of the year tliat some professional advice given by a trained nurse to those who visit the sick may prove valuable. She has very strong ideas on how invalids should be treated by their visitors, who often, she declares, forget that sick friends are entirely at their mercy on such occasions. She -prefers her paflents to have two visitors rather than one. Then, if the patient txres of talking, the two can chat together and the invalid is interested without being fatigued by an effort to keep up the conversation. She advises "best" clothes for those who visit invalids. "Pretty clothes and a cheerful face make quite a good tonic," she says. Though flowers, books and fruit are always welcome, an unexpeoted dainty, m the shape of a jelly, cake or other delicacy, if allowed, is a real treat to one who is weary of invalid cookery and of the family or hospital recipes. An unexpected special dish will sometimes do a great deal towards restoring a lost appetite. Find out what your sick friend will appreciate most. A new hook may appeal to one, whilst another would much prefer a bottle of lavender water. One invalid of my acquaintance was over- ^ joyed some months ago to receive a sheaf mixed twigs all breaking into leaf. As she recognised and named each one they brought the vision of open spaces into her quiet bedroom.