Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-12
DAILY NOVELETTE,
SPRING FEVER
BY FLORENCE A. HEAL

DERTIE was "stuck on a GIRL" and
- the joys of a boys living no longer
! appealed to him. His mother did not
recognize symptoms, of course, so she
gave him n dose of sulphur and mo
lasses, and attributed his sudden pecu
| liarties to a need of spring tonic. But
his young brother Billy knew all about
it, and from morning till night, when
ever BERTHE was within hearing dis
tance, he chanted, whistled and shouted
"Berties stuck on Susie, took her to
movie" with no sense of dcicacy
whatever for Bertie's fender condition.
BERTHE was fourteen, and girls had
heretofore been to him merely an un-
avoidable necessity, something to tease
and laugh at and make cry. But some
thing had happened. 1t had suddenly
come upon him one day while strolling
down the street. Over on the other side
was Sue Knight, and forgetting the
times when he pulled her hair and linked
her hair ribbons. BERTHE carelessly
strolled across the street.
"Lo. Sue."
''lTello. Bertie, where you going?'
81 dunno, movies I guess. I've got
fifty cents. You can go too if you want
TO. 7 don't care -"
And this being her first invitation,
Sue futtered little and answered:
''GC just as SOON"
So off they went. tbc width Of the
sidewalk between them md not word
snoken until at tbe entr.nco to tho
theatre BERTHE remarked orua1y.
"I like to sit down front do,'t Won -
And Sue beinp nerfectlv oprooahlo to
ANYTHING ren,iod .
ara inst ms soon "
For n week oftor +h;s rroot o,,o,t
Rert;o tur,od rod ~ +ho so,'nd 80 onr
tbipg lilo srsio ord ,,.rono,.or ,irht
wos montiorod bo Col. l., :. =, LiIJo,
,1Irs;on IN sus;o.s f,,,;I,. ,,,,o
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nonor hosLots &c ,,s; ,';ns- , ,I',"
and bcontv reodv for tho eyonira,s fmn
of honoinr tho,, - tto;s us 'uI
door knobs or corrso - fo,inr, noo,i,.
liked n girl be uouId n,t .o,,o MOO
condv in bar b,slo+ ond for ,rooI.
Eortia had saved hi. snordino ,,nno,,
for a hox of g,r,oo,,s ooIor fIIoJ ,,.;4i,
cbocoIote croor,, ,nd L,d ooo,o, -,
bio sistor to ,,oi,o ,a,lo,r,,I ~
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70 his booIs o"ornd ' tLo hn.a Lug anu LUX
dorl, cornor ho s.ao,oJ fom h,aa., u
hadn.t u.artod ~ hido T., ."."' iis
,,Iano uo hod ,,.o,,toJ S, 'H n"'u
t,,t no,,, H. aan.t ,:. ,;as ~ nn' MN,
tha+ NV 7, fo". ,,a4 pt''s s're 'pout
he hid;r. n,ooo and hn Lo,I I ~. a: 80, n.,''
hm+ shn haI soon r;a; anI LIS T., o'.d'n'
con+iro
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Won -,
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Disturbed only nv thn movemont of t,.o
toos d;rr;r, into +I,o nno,,,,I ts.t, wv
tios n,inf,lIr consc;ors ~ tho ,";1, n"a" nn.
undor thn cond;+;nns J aJ
hotb lacking the corr.cr r. atton,r. "n' :.
Susie really sbould have hrt +hon sho
wasn't used to KISSING bo,.s portio ,,.ao
couoliv inexnorioncod hut Lo G,oIi,,
rose 70 the occasion Croe,;,r ~
Young lady ms if sho vora n hot s+ono
ninc. bo ,imnIontod in tbo ,;aia;t,' .'.
ber loft eor n smoc,, u.hiot, ,aa,i n,a VI
!" u 'ne ir"n' '.'a|Ha.
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