The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-02-19
incubation
For Love
BY SADIE oLcon

nat II IL, SUE
Nars Doctah," she said. can Won
hoculate anybody with sickness ..
Certainly"
Sue looked in every direction except
the doctor. N'p'
Come said the doctor. There's
sonletlins on your mind. ON with !, :,
hearn tell. Mars Doctah. dat luh
is disease" '@'
Well said the doctor BECOMING
interested. 9'H'iiS
hearh tell. too, dat long ago dev
was Tub potions ana If any ona ,ooi.
dc potion dey was in Tub. been mimi.
IN dat 20 might glib de disease thnt
way somehow"
lou mean that you are in love AMI
wish me to make the man you Iov.
love YOU ~
It's about dat" Sue confessed in a
voice scarcely audible.
Whom are you in love with Sueg,,
don't like To tell dat. Can't y,.
elo me de potion to glib To- him"
No; ! should have 10 mgn,o. ,,.,
case myself. fyoun tell ne his name
perhaps can do something for Won"
i reckon it's sam"
Mr.. Trotter's SAM
Yes. Mars Doctah."
Inc Doctors eyes expressed amusc.
ment, but he kept a straight face al.
though this was scarcely necessary. for
sue never once looked at him. Pros
/ ently he went to medicine ease. took
up bottle and poured little of III.
contents into "A vial Then. handiu.
it to Sue. he said:
The next time Sam comes to see Won
and asks for drink of water or cider
III fact, anything to drink pour some
OF this into 1t. 1t will make him sick.
! Appear to be much frightened and tcle.
! phone for me.
Yes, Mars Doctah | do dat"
1t was not long before the doctor was
called upon TO cure Sam of the effects
OF the dose Sue had given the man She
loved. lie examined his patient care.
fully and gave him something to settle
his stomach, then prickng bis arm
/ with lancet. drew little blood
Sam, he said. I'm going H. test
/ this blood for the disease you've got.
/ Come and see me tomorrow morning.
4 and Ill tell YOU what ii is"
/ The next morning sam was perfectly
well. but curiosity ana fear drove him
into Or niHSmore's Office He was ad-
mitted In his turn. and when the ply.
stefan had felt his pulse and tested his
temperature with mouth thermome.
ter he looked very solemn
sam" he said you've contracted "A
/ serious disease"
"Fo' de Lawd Mars Doctah. is it
/ gwine to xii me-
Not unless i drives you to suicide
| In itself it is not fatal. but 1t some
| times drives persons TO do very foolish
/ things. 1t will on rare occasions throw
I the patient into fever hystcrical
condition. in which he will act like a
+ lunatic. You have little of that fe-
verishness about YOU now"
LA sakes. Mars Doctah What yo'
I call dat disease?
"Amormania.
How you know | got datf'
The doctor took down a bottle from
shelf. put a drop Of rainwater on n
/ bit OF glass. put the glass on micro
scope and after adjusting a focus told
/ Sam TO look into the instrument. The
darby saw lot of monsters swim
ming about
Now. Sam" said the physician. Il
don't wish to scare you. but you are
looking Mt drop Of your own blood.
Sam collapsed and the doctor held
I him up.
"All diseases nowadays. Sam, are
caused by germs. Those creatures are
the germs Of amormauia that have got
into your blood. When man falls in
love with a woman they take posses
sino of him and
"But | hain't in Tub with any wo-
man" protested sam
Il didn't say sou were, sam at least
YOU don't know ii. The disease hasn't
developed yet. When it does you'll ina
out that YOU are in love aud no ms
take. If there is no response to your
love you'll suffer from sort OF lu-
macy"
"Fo de Lawd -
"There is medical theory, Sam that
Ike cures like" continued Or bins-
more. Il can take some OF your blood
and inject ii into the veins OF the
woman you love-
But | haint in Tub"
"Yes. you are, sam; you're in love
with good girl As soon as THESE
monsters | have shown you develop
there's only dozen now IN ie"
DAYS therell be million-you Il ua'e
a regular attack Of amormania'
what do dem" cried sam. asliasV.
Unless your passion i returned y"u
viii act ike luuatic. They az 20.
Now I'll tell yor what | propose 90 . u''
I can inject some Of your hi"%l l-'''
tho hodv Of a nice girl This nil give
her the disease and she'll love you "''-
nerotelv Then we shall have ease
~ like cures like