The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Too Much Is Too Much

Too Much Is T00 Mucn IHTEORGE'S father came to visit SSV us few weeks ago." said Mrs.
 Simmons niece. That's Pwhy haven't been in to see you since you got back. Did you have a nice trip?"
 "Indeed we did!' declared Mrs. Sim mons; whats been the matter"
 "A good many diseases" said her niece with a sigh. First it was flu and then it was gout and then it was some thing else. It had the merit of novelty,
 aWhy you poor thingw cried her aunt. And you had your father-in- law visiting you when you were so sickT'
 "Oh, I wasn't sick a minute" her niece assured here. Those diseases are the ones that Georges father thought he had"
 "Whatever did you do?"
 "Worried, for one thing" laughed her niece. '9The doctor said the patient had been sightseeing a little too much for a man of his frail strength and he thought he would be all right after a few days rest.
 But Gregory's father said that this doctor was no good" the niece went on, ''and so he called another one. This one told him he'd better go to bed and stay week, but he informed us on the quiet that there wasn't anything the matter. He didn't realize that Georges father would want to be sat with and read to for the entire week.
 "Of course, knowing that the trouble was only fatigue, we left him alone sometimes to get little sleep and let him have mental relaxation, and he did not like it. We stayed home evenings and I gave up my luncheon club and the concert and ran up to see how he was even when I had callers, but he got the idea that he was being neglected and he was hurt. The first thing we knew, he climbed out of bed and tele- phoned to the nearest hospital to say that he wanted room and would they please send the ambulance for him.
 George told me to let his father go if he wanted to. He has plenty of money and we could go and see him at the hospital, and 1t would be a lot easier for all concerned. So he went. :. l 'He went over there on Monday, the niece continued. "On Tuesday aft ernoon I went over and he told me triumphantly that that morning he had had all the attendants on the floor look. ing after him. He said newsboy came in first with a paper, then a man to vacuum, then woman to wipe up the floor, then a nurse to take his tempera- ture, then an interne to tell him what he could eat, then two women to put up clean curtains, then a nurse to open the window, a girl in brown with tray of lunch and then another nurse to take his pulse and close the window"
 "I suppose he loved all that atten- tion," laughed Mrs. Simmons.
 "Oh, yes, indeed" said her niece 'EIe said it was certainly worth while to be there and see what they would do for a poor, lonely man who was so sick as that. While I was there q nurse came and opened the window, another girl in brown brought in a glass oi orange juice, nurse brought him q book to read aloud from later, if ht wished her to, a nurse entered and closed the window and the interne came to tell him the football score and then another nurse to put up the back rest so that he could sit up. Every time onG of them came in Georges father would glance at me as though to ask what thought of that for care of the proper sort"
 ''Oh, of course" said Mrs. Simmons
 'The next morning I was busy" tn,